Did you know what Juneteenth was before this year? (how much, vs, federal)

[Mircea]

Originally Posted by kell490

Where I grew up hardly any African Americans lived in Orange County, California. We have a large Hispanic population. Cinco de Mayo was a big holiday for Hispanics in the area where I grew up even then the schools I went to was almost 100% white.

That would have a lot to do with it.

Cincinnati has always had a sizeable Black population, even before the Civil War and it was a hotbed of the Abolitionist movement and a major stop on the underground railroad.

Blacks migrated here after the Civil War and the two world wars, especially from Louisiana and Mississippi.

It cost practically nothing to jump on a riverboat and sail up the Mississippi to the Ohio and dock anywhere along the Cincinnati riverfront.

As late as the early 1960s, you could walk across the Ohio without getting your feet wet there were so many riverboats and barges on the river.

The Pannini Brothers ran a capo-regime for the De Bartolo Family up in Youngstown/Arkon because of all the longshoreman here.

We don't have a lot of Irish here, so St Patrick's Day is meaningless, but I'm sure in other parts of the US it's a big deal.

We have a lot of Greeks and that's a big deal.

[ebbe]

I can't recall anyone in the African American community ever mentioning this when I was growing up. Not once.

[katharsis]

I had a vague idea that it had to do with freeing the slaves but did not know the details. (Did not vote in the poll.)

[Taiko]

Originally Posted by ebbe

I can't recall anyone in the African American community ever mentioning this when I was growing up. Not once.

Well it was something local to Texas since the date goes to Texas. Growing up I never heard of it despite one uncle moving his family to Houston but over the past decade or so Black characters on TV, probably on Black-ish started to reference it. In a way it is sort of like Kwanzaa but with greater public support.

[LKJ1988]

Never knew about it and don't care bear.

[D217]

Yes. I've known about it for probably 20 years. There are a lot of city/statewide events in NC, been this way since before I got here.

[ChrisC]

I still don't. I rarely bother researching leftist made-up slang or words the left commandeer and pervert.

[Rocko20]

Originally Posted by ebbe

I can't recall anyone in the African American community ever mentioning this when I was growing up. Not once.

Because we didn’t know about it.

Obama had 8 years to make it a federal holiday and never mentioned it once.

[tipsyguam]

never heard of it til like last week but Im happy to laugh the stupidity of this divisive name for a holiday.

[ColdAilment]

No, and that is a form of white privilege.