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> America's latest attempt at making themselves feel better about their barbaric cultural history This isn't a new phenomena. Juneteenth has been celebrated fo

> America's latest attempt at making themselves feel better about their barbaric cultural history This isn't a new phenomena. Juneteenth has been celebrated for well over a hundred years now.

assimpleaspossi 1y ago
By people in a small community in Texas and nowhere else. No one elsewhere heard of this thing till now. Now everyone pretends it's a big deal but it was strictly a local event there. You never heard of it till Biden's group brought it up. I bet I'm older than you (the reader). I never heard of this till Biden brought it up. This holiday is beyond stupid when you consider that the guy who freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln, doesn't have a Federal holiday where one gets the day off. EDIT: Now that I've had my time for my "shower thoughts": Why is there no national holiday for the American Indian? They were here first. Mistreated and kicked out of the areas they occuplied. A wonderful culture with a wonderful history but no mention anywhere on the calendar?
- ghushn3 1y ago
  > I bet I'm older than you (the reader). I never heard of this till Biden brought it up. I'm in my mid-50s, maybe you are older than me. It's something I had heard about in the 2015-2020 timeframe. I'm white as fuck, but being online meant I saw tweet threads or short explainers about it for a few years. I didn't meet folks who celebrated it, but when I asked around to Black folks I knew they were like, "Yeah, it's a thing." So I suspect that the holiday gained momentum among Black Americans and spread out from Texas sometime prior to me hearing about it, perhaps with the rise of social media, and then us folks who are out of the loop started hearing about it later. (Either through our own social media intake or through the declaration of a federal holiday.) > This holiday is beyond stupid when you consider that the guy who freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln, doesn't have a Federal holiday where one gets the day off. Don't see why we can't have both.
  - assimpleaspossi 1y ago
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    - bobxmax 1y ago
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      - assimpleaspossi 1y ago
        No. We don't have multiple Federal holidays for any such thing.
        stirfish 1y ago
        Just the one holiday. And the day before it. Oh, and that other day in spring.
        assimpleaspossi 1y ago
        You must live in another country. We have no such national or federal holidays.
    - ghushn3 1y ago
      Mostly because I think we have too few holidays. I'm fine with Juneteenth, you are the one who seems to have a problem with it?

> America's latest attempt at making themselves feel better about their barbaric cultural history This isn't a new phenomena. Juneteenth has been celebrated for well over a hundred years now.

assimpleaspossi 1y ago

By people in a small community in Texas and nowhere else. No one elsewhere heard of this thing till now. Now everyone pretends it's a big deal but it was strictly a local event there. You never heard of it till Biden's group brought it up. I bet I'm older than you (the reader). I never heard of this till Biden brought it up. This holiday is beyond stupid when you consider that the guy who freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln, doesn't have a Federal holiday where one gets the day off. EDIT: Now that I've had my time for my "shower thoughts": Why is there no national holiday for the American Indian? They were here first. Mistreated and kicked out of the areas they occuplied. A wonderful culture with a wonderful history but no mention anywhere on the calendar?

ghushn3 1y ago
> I bet I'm older than you (the reader). I never heard of this till Biden brought it up. I'm in my mid-50s, maybe you are older than me. It's something I had heard about in the 2015-2020 timeframe. I'm white as fuck, but being online meant I saw tweet threads or short explainers about it for a few years. I didn't meet folks who celebrated it, but when I asked around to Black folks I knew they were like, "Yeah, it's a thing." So I suspect that the holiday gained momentum among Black Americans and spread out from Texas sometime prior to me hearing about it, perhaps with the rise of social media, and then us folks who are out of the loop started hearing about it later. (Either through our own social media intake or through the declaration of a federal holiday.) > This holiday is beyond stupid when you consider that the guy who freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln, doesn't have a Federal holiday where one gets the day off. Don't see why we can't have both.
- assimpleaspossi 1y ago
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  - bobxmax 1y ago
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    - assimpleaspossi 1y ago
      No. We don't have multiple Federal holidays for any such thing.
      - stirfish 1y ago
        Just the one holiday. And the day before it. Oh, and that other day in spring.
        assimpleaspossi 1y ago
        You must live in another country. We have no such national or federal holidays.
  - ghushn3 1y ago
    Mostly because I think we have too few holidays. I'm fine with Juneteenth, you are the one who seems to have a problem with it?