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I have no problem with Valentines Day or St Patrick’s Day, so Juneteenth is at least as good a reason as those are to have a holiday. I find the name name awkward and sort of childish though.
Awkward and childish are not the first adjectives that come to my mind. Odd.
I can't help but feel that "holidays" like this actually do more to divide us than unite.
I'm not a slave I don't know anyone that has ever been a slave but what we all are is Americans.
What is next? a holiday for transgendered non binary straight but crooked "theys" ?
Oh well if it makes people happy BUT does anyone think it is odd that so many are willing to erase our History until that history is something they approve of and then it is celebrated?
Maybe I should just stop celebrating Passover because I'm not a slave and don't know anyone that has been a slave.
I have to admit I never heard of the day until the news started reporting about Trumps rally scheduled on the same day. I don't remember this being taught in schools I went to school in Southern California 1974-1987.
"June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger arrived with Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas, and announced to enslaved Africans Americans that the Civil War had ended and they were free — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation."
Growing up in Texas, I was well aware of Juneteenth. It was even taught in school. Long before it became a state holiday in 1980, we (white community) knew that the parks and zoo was unofficially reserved for the black community on that day. Driving by one big park it was fun to see literally hundreds of black families out enjoying themselves and remembering the significance of the day.
So you're comparing a religious holiday to a local Texas holiday about when word of the end of the Civil war reached Galveston?
Passover is all about our freedom from the Egyptians. There are many parallels between Passover and Juneteenth. If one is unnecessary or childish (both terms used in this thread), why not the other?
It would be strange to me to try to understand why people are discounting a holiday celebrating the true ending of slavery in the United States, but c'mon - we all know why people are minimizing it.
Passover is all about our freedom from the Egyptians. There are many parallels between Passover and Juneteenth. If one is unnecessary or childish (both terms used in this thread), why not the other?
It would be strange to me to try to understand why people are discounting a holiday celebrating the true ending of slavery in the United States, but c'mon - we all know why people are minimizing it.
Again, you are comparing something considered a sacred religious holiday to celebrating the day that people in Galveston, Texas heard that the Civil war was over.
I'm not saying Juneteenth is unnecessary or childish, it was a holiday I grew up with, it's just that it is a minor holiday.....it always has been. People are pretending otherwise right now but that doesn't change history.
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