Law Juneteenth as Federal Holiday

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Tangentially related: I came across this video today and thought it was fascinating.



Part of the reason people are ignorant about history is because they are ignorant about the reasons WHY they are ignorant about history.

 

[Graves The Elder]

Wow you're really such an extreme racist that the day the slaves were freed shouldn't be a national holiday because of mlk day? lol. Why should we have memorial day?!? We already have veterans day!!!

and yet sadly, there's still no Corn Pop Holiday
and after all, you're the one on dubbs. not me.
reckless much?

 

[Deleted member 484047]

Just what we need, another holiday where the banks aond government offices are closed, but everyone else has to go to work. But on the plus side, Juneteenth sales will be lit!

Thanks, but no thanks. If anything we need fewer fucking holidays.

 

[Queen B]

 

[Low Test With da Best]

i'm not sure i follow what you mean, but it has been a state holiday here since 1980 and celebrated before that. it celebrates general granger proclaiming all slaves were free in galveston, tx on 19 jun 1865.

i was just stating history. do you want to get into cinco de mayo and diez y seis de septiembre?

It was a hypothetical partisan lefty post

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Isn't that just Black Friday?

 

[M3t4tr0n]

Yeah, those of us who actually pay taxes have skin in the game. For deadbeats like yourself, no reason to care since you're a non-contributor anyway. You can celebrate by cleaning the hot pocket sleeves out of your bunkbed.

No, my mom can't make me clean them and neither can you

 

[Cuzcatlan]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...-federal-holiday-n1231550?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

"WASHINGTON — Senators on Friday announced legislation to make Juneteenth, a widely observed holiday that marks the federal order to free slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865, a national holiday.

Also known as Emancipation Day, Black Independence Day or Jubilee Day, Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery after the Civil War, although President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had legally accomplished that within the Confederacy more than two years earlier. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery throughout the entire United States."

How do you feel Sherbros? I mean I think it's a good idea. I think we should also remove Columbus day at the same time.

This should have been the holiday to commemorate the black struggle in this country. Replace MLK birthday. No one has a holiday in this country but MLK. No human is perfect including him. Also it take away from the all the historical figures that fought to get where we are today

 

[Cuzcatlan]

National would be great. NY moved in the right direction recently.



Soul Food.

Millions of Black Americans so you kno

I work with loads of Blacks and never ever heard them utter this holiday. I bet most didn't even know till this year.

 

[M3t4tr0n]

This should have been the holiday to commemorate the black struggle in this country. Replace MLK birthday. No one has a holiday in this country but MLK. No human is perfect including him. Also it take away from the all the historical figures that fought to get where we are today

MLK day takes away from historical figures? Also Columbus has a holiday.

 

[Cuzcatlan]

MLK day takes away from historical figures? Also Columbus has a holiday.

I'm for removing Columbus day and more about celebrating the old and new world coming together. I actually believe that MLK day is just about MLK when he was not the only person who fought for blacks even in his time. Plus all the people that pave the way for him should be represented. That's why a day like juneteenth would be good. Make it about the black struggle through time.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

I'm for a federal Emancipation holiday. Long overdue imo. I'm against removing Columbus Day.

 

[kenetics]

Do it, make corporations pay workers more if they work the holiday.


We should also do an official Native American holiday(thanksgiving dont count) to replace Columbus.

Agree

 

[kenetics]

I'm for a federal Emancipation holiday. Long overdue imo. I'm against removing Columbus Day.

I'm not, remove Columbus day.

 

[kenetics]

Hadn't even heard of this "holiday" until a few days ago. All the sudden it's something everyone's been celebrating since forever.

You didn't know?

 

[kenetics]

Isn't that just Black Friday?

Still part of the problem.

 

[Kaybee]

I'm not, remove Columbus day.

I'm for the practicality of having a federal holiday in that particular time of the year, but I do not think it should honor Columbus.

I like the idea of turning it into Indigenous Peoples' Day, though it would be nice if there was a better name that rolled off the tongue easier.

 

[kenetics]

I'm for the practicality of having a federal holiday in that particular time of the year, but I do not think it should honor Columbus.

I like the idea of turning it into Indigenous Peoples' Day, though it would be nice if there was a better name that rolled off the tongue easier.

Agree.

 

[Corn Pop Hombre]

and yet sadly, there's still no Corn Pop Holiday
and after all, you're the one on dubbs. not me.
reckless much?

You dont know what dubs means do you

 

[MMABrooklyn]

I work with loads of Blacks and never ever heard them utter this holiday. I bet most didn't even know till this year.

It's a Texas rooted holiday and grew. I celebrated it as a kid.