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Handyman said:
Tell that to the Black people outside Texas who celebrate it...
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I meant that the slave owners in 1865 TX largely ignored the decree. That is, they ignored it until they were forced to realize that they lost the war.

Juneteenth, or whatever name you'd like to use, is a very good day of commemoration, and should be recognized at the federal level, not just by various states.
 
St. Clown said:
I meant that the slave owners in 1865 TX largely ignored the decree. That is, they ignored it until they were forced to realize that they lost the war.

Juneteenth, or whatever name you'd like to use, is a very good day of commemoration, and should be recognized at the federal level, not just by various states.
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Oh I know...just sayingit isnt a Texas thing anymore even if it started that way.

And I have studied history my whole life and never heard of Juneteenth until a friggin sitcom did an episode about it. Apparently I had quite the blindspot.
 
Handyman said:
Oh I know...just sayingit isnt a Texas thing anymore even if it started that way.

And I have studied history my whole life and never heard of Juneteenth until a friggin sitcom did an episode about it. Apparently I had quite the blindspot.
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I actually learned about it two years ago when I googled "list of holidays" after I was asked by our HR people to review the holidays we'd be granting that year, and I was like "Juneteenth? Is that even a word?"
 
ScoobyDoo said:
You're right. Here I am conflating the two. I didn't know either of them existed. Sad.
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pretty sure the Tulsa massacre took place on the day Juneteenth is celebrated. That's why it has two different connotations to it. One good celebrating the freedom of the slaves, and one bad, marking the biggest slaughter of blacks by racist whites in the country's history.
 
The thing I’ve learned is most you grew up/have lived in lily white places. I learned about Juneteenth when I was a kid, and I’m from Alaska!
 
rufus said:
pretty sure the Tulsa massacre took place on the day Juneteenth is celebrated. That's why it has two different connotations to it. One good celebrating the freedom of the slaves, and one bad, marking the biggest slaughter of blacks by racist whites in the country's history.
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The Tulsa Massacre was May 31-June 1. I don't think Juneteenth has a bad connotation?
 
The Aunt Jemima brand is no more. It's been scrapped and will be reimagined.

Conservatives, for a bunch of people who say other people are easily offended... well, you know..
 
MissThundercat said:
The Aunt Jemima brand is no more. It's been scrapped and will be reimagined.

Conservatives, for a bunch of people who say other people are easily offended... well, you know..
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Cracker Jacks, Smack Yo Mamma seasoning, vanilla extract, Cracker Barrell, white rice, brown rice, light beer, Gorton's, and Spic and Span should be added to the list too according to the comments one of my friends' social media posts. Southerners are special.
 
MissThundercat said:
The Aunt Jemima brand is no more. It's been scrapped and will be reimagined.

Conservatives, for a bunch of people who say other people are easily offended... well, you know..
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Only took 16 years since the "C.S.A." mockumentary pointed it out as an example of house slave imagery persisting in modern advertising.
 
An additional 1.5 million file first time unemployment.

That’s now 45.7 million that have filed in the last 13 weeks. Obviously many have returned to work, but a seemingly regular 1.5-1.7 million is a lot for an economy that’s supposed to be turning around.
 
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Kepler said:
Prolly employees of businesses that have gone under.
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CNBC says some of that could be, but it is also people who are *still* filing the initial from March/April. Or it is people who were initially denied and are re-applying.

They basically threw their hands in the air and shrugged.
 
Kepler said:
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.
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There are a few candidates for "the day slavery was abolished."
September 22, 1862: Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863: Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect (in applicable locations)
April 9, 1865: Lee surrenders at Appomattox, effectively ending the war, though fighting continued
May 9, 1865: President Johnson declares that the war is over
June 19, 1865: Federal troops arrive in Galveston to enforce Emancipation Proclamation in Texas
June 23, 1865: Gen. Stand Watie is last Confederate General to surrender
December 6, 1865: Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to hit 3/4 of states threshold, which is the action that legally freed the last slaves in the US.

I get the significance of June 19, and that significance is what people signify it to be, but some of those other dates seem more worthy of celebration to me than a minor action of federal troops in one state.​
 
LynahFan said:
I get the significance of June 19, and that significance is what people signify it to be, but some of those other dates seem more worthy of celebration to me than a minor action of federal troops in one state.
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It's the day black people chose. That makes it The Day.
 
The North Face is pulling their ads from Facebook. Apparently they dont want to sell to old racists or something.

(staying with Instagram which is owned by FB because they want to sell to bots and influencers though)

edit: They pulled it from Insta too. Must have realized how stupid they would look if they didnt.
 
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