Juneteenth?

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I am really confused about this. I am 57 yrs old and am from NC, and I have never heard of this before the media jumped on Trump for scheduling his rally on this day. I actually thought they were making this up at the time. Am I the only one?
 
It’s been floating around for years. Now because “orange man bad” it’s being made into headline drama
 
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Texas made it a holiday in the late 80s. Where the last slaves officially got notice of emancipation. Something like that. I think the name is patronizing in the way it is ebonics-ish slang, unbefitting of the turning-point serious nature of the milestone celebrated. Probably named by some phony-baloney race hustler that thought they were clever.
 
I have lived in a few Southern states ... Oklahoma (Tulsa), Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia, and North Carolina ...and I never heard of Juneteenth before.
 
Only reason I knew about it growing up, my grandpa on my dads side had a men’s clothing store in eastern NC. Large portion of his customers were black. Early june was a busy time for him with suit sales. The largest of the black churches always had a big diner and dance for it. His sister, my aunt had a general supply farm store and was one of the few businesses that would deliver to black farms, so when I was down visiting in the summer I would earn extra money riding on the delivery trucks helping. So I was around the community that would celebrate it. But I honestly feel like black folk in the city never really celebrated it like the ones that lived out in the country and had real ties to the agricultural past of the area.
 
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Never heard of it till the conflict with the Trump rally kerfuffle.
 
Just heard of it in the last few weeks- between living in Texas and the south (Georgia and NC) since 1985, I'm sure if it was important someone would've said so before now.

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OldNascar said:
Like it or not my money is on the 19th of June becoming a national holiday in the very near future.
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I think you’re probably right. Because the first politician who doesn’t show support for it’s going to be considered racist. And that doesn’t bode well for reelection.
 
Personally, I don’t care. It’s really a big nothingburger. So...the government may close an extra day? Good. Banks closed? I’m down.

It’s literally giving the rowdy kids a cookie to settle them down.

And if you disagree with me, you are a racist. Because that’s how it works now, apparently.


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There's already national holidays that my last company didn't give us off. Not that big of a deal to me. But it is a historical event that everyone should be taught in school just like the rest of the historical events of the Civil War.
 
I see nothing wrong with it. I don't even care if it's "new". Emancipation is something to be celebrated, remembered and reflected on.

It - emancipation - is a hell of lot more meaningful and worthy of remembrance than St. Patrick's Day. And I still have kin on that island.
 
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I'm not convinced that this part of history is more important than other historic events.
 
Tim said:
I see nothing wrong with it. I don't even care if it's "new". Emancipation is something to be celebrated, remembered and reflected on.

It - emancipation - is a hell of lot more meaningful and worthy of remembrance than St. Patrick's Day. And I still have kin on that island.
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Perhaps they should change black history month from February to June then. It could possibly garner more attention. Or they could just celebrate it the whole month of June as well as February.
 
Geezer said:
I first heard about it about a week ago. I actually thought is was something from a Seinfeld episode, like Festivus.
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It is, folks have been airing grievances for three weeks now
 
On the march to draw up a new calendar, where every day is a national holiday, and nobody ever has to go to work.
All the checks just keep showing up magically. Only in A M E R I C A !!!

Ok, so how many more holidays do we have to make up to eliminate all the work-days?
 
One of the vendors I work with has the day off... that's how I found out about it.. I had never heard of it before either
 
I have lived in Durham since 1997. I am aware of some level of memorial/celebration downtown for at least the last 10 years (since my oldest started school) because the school list serve always had an announcement about the event.
 
it's been around for a long time, but never very publicized. not until recently
same as 5 de mayo and all the other diversity holidays.
 
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