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In all honesty, why isn't Juneteenth a national holiday?

If I could start over, I would include it on the short list of national holidays, along with the anniversary of the moon landing.

Election Day should be for a week and you can take any day you want off. And move it to better weather.
 
Kepler said:
In all honesty, why isn't Juneteenth a national holiday?

If I could start over, I would include it on the short list of national holidays, along with the anniversary of the moon landing.

Election Day should be for a week and you can take any day you want off. And move it to better weather.
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Too close to the 4th of July. We're only allowed one Holiday season, and that's Veterans Day through MLK Day. Besides, there's already MLK Day.[/sarcasm]

I'd have no problem with it, but there is somewhat an issue of holiday bloat.

Current holiday calendar at my workplace:
New Years
MLK
Memorial Day
4th of July
Labor Day
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving
Day after Thanksgiving (in lieu of Columbus Day)
Christmas
+ 2 "floating holidays" which basically = 2 extra vacation days.

If I could make the holiday schedule without adding more:
New Year's
MLK Day (but move it to February to replace President's Day)
Spring Holiday To be named later (tie it to Easter if you want, but needs to be sometime in late March or early April).
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Indigenous People Day (Columbus Day renamed)
Election Day (even years only)
Thanksgiving
Day After Thanksgiving
Christmas
+1 floating (odd years only)
 
I like the idea of a week-long voting national holiday in June (opposite Christmas 6 months later). And nothing says the current number of holidays is by divine command. We could have 5 fewer or 15 more. Our choice.
 
Kepler said:
In all honesty, why isn't Juneteenth a national holiday?

If I could start over, I would include it on the short list of national holidays, along with the anniversary of the moon landing.

Election Day should be for a week and you can take any day you want off. And move it to better weather.
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Honestly.....who knew of Juneteenth two weeks ago?

25% of the population? Too high??
 
mookie1995 said:
Honestly.....who knew of Juneteenth two weeks ago?

25% of the population? Too high??
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Thank you for an excellent argument why it should be a national holiday.

POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Independence Day
Memorial Day
Presidents Day

SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Labor Day
MLK
Veterans Day
New Years
Thanksgiving
Columbus Day
Christmas

I would add or change these holidays:

Kill Presidents Day
Kill Columbus Day
Kill Memorial Day
Thanksgiving. Change it to Native Day, a celebration of the original Americans.*
Emancipation Day (June 19). The end of slavery.
Patriots Day (April 9). The day the traitors surrendered. Make THIS the day we solemnly mourn our war dead.
Bill of Rights Day (September 25). Have kids' games where we put our government officials under a fake guillotine, to remind them.
Victory Day (October 19). The day the British surrendered. Make THIS the day for military pew pew oo-rah.
Armistice Day (November 11). Celebrate as Anti-war day, as it was originally intended. This should NOT be a military day in any way.
Labor Day (May 1). Move it to the date it is celebrated in the rest of the world.

* Make all the land in the Western Hemisphere a perpetual deed of trust for NAs, and pay them rent every year on Native Day in a ceremony before all of Congress, like the State of the Union speech. Keep a copy of the deed on display in the Smithsonian, nestled in Andrew Jackson's skull.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
I first heard of it when The Watchmen on HBO first aired. I cannot believe my school didn't teach this at all. Sickening to be honest.
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I think you’re confusing it with the Tulsa massacre? “Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, and Cel-Liberation Day, is an American holiday celebrated annually on June 19. It commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union general Gordon Granger read federal orders in Galveston, Texas, that all previously enslaved people in Texas were free.” (Wiki)
I was in Panama last fall; those people know how to do holidays. There are about 3 independence days in November, and they take a week off work for each one. As I recall, they said they take most of the summer off too, to chill in the mountains.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
I first heard of it when The Watchmen on HBO first aired. I cannot believe my school didn't teach this at all. Sickening to be honest.
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The Juneteenth episode of Atlanta, 2 years ago. However my daughter looked at me like I had stepped out of Victorian England when I mentioned I'd not heard of it, and she teaches American History to junior high school kids, so I think we're doing it now even in sh-t holes like AZ.

We were raised in a country that was even more racist than it is now, somehow. Of course our teachers didn't think THE DAY SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED was an important day. But, hey, we know the date Peal Harbor was bombed. That affected white people.
 
geezer said:
they take a week off work for each one. As I recall, they said they take most of the summer off too, to chill in the mountains.
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Everybody civilized stops working in the summer and goes to the mountains or the seaside. Only Americans have been trained by our masters to tool through it, and we're so dumb we're actually proud of ourselves.

The reaction of Europeans to Americans, when it isn't revulsion, is pity. They regard us as prisoners.
 
Kepler said:
In all honesty, why isn't Juneteenth a national holiday?

If I could start over, I would include it on the short list of national holidays, along with the anniversary of the moon landing.

Election Day should be for a week and you can take any day you want off. And move it to better weather.
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Juneteenth isn't a national holiday. It's a TX holiday that has started to be recognized by more and more people, and then by companies for its political significance. There's a very good reason why only TX recognizes it. (For people like mookie, it's because the copy of the Emancipation Proclamation arrived in Texas that day. Only to then be ignored.)
 
geezer said:
I think you’re confusing it with the Tulsa massacre? “Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, and Cel-Liberation Day, is an American holiday celebrated annually on June 19. It commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union general Gordon Granger read federal orders in Galveston, Texas, that all previously enslaved people in Texas were free.” (Wiki)
I was in Panama last fall; those people know how to do holidays. There are about 3 independence days in November, and they take a week off work for each one. As I recall, they said they take most of the summer off too, to chill in the mountains.
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You're right. Here I am conflating the two. I didn't know either of them existed. Sad.
 
No one ought to beat themselves up over it. It's not as if it was something being taught in school but you said, "Ah f**k that I have no desire to learn about this!" and completely tuned it out. The most important thing now is to become familiar and educated about it and pass it on.
 
mookie1995 said:
Honestly.....who knew of Juneteenth two weeks ago?

25% of the population? Too high??
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I learned about it two years ago...no joke from the show Black-ish.

And as Kepler said that is exactly why it should be a holiday. Plus it will piss of Whitey.
 
St. Clown said:
Juneteenth isn't a national holiday. It's a TX holiday that has started to be recognized by more and more people, and then by companies for its political significance. There's a very good reason why only TX recognizes it. (For people like mookie, it's because the copy of the Emancipation Proclamation arrived in Texas that day. Only to then be ignored.)
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Tell that to the Black people outside Texas who celebrate it...
 
I'm reading this thread with honest surprise that so many of you haven't heard of Juneteenth before now. It's shocking, really.
 
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