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I remember when Juneteeth became a thing. I thought it was a typo. So I fixed all the calendar at work to have “June Nineteenth.”
I feel you friend, I grew up with the public education in a red area and I didn’t know it was a thing until it was a made a federal holiday (at which point I did research to learn more about it)
I’d say the most common thing I’ve learned since my schoolyard days (20 years ago) is that my school failed me and many other kids. (I’ll never forget when our history teacher was portraying ‘Manifest Destiny’ as a GOOD thing, I got sent to the office because I pushed back on that)
Yeah it’s wild it seemed like it came out of nowhere one year, but it was a very big holiday in other parts. Frankly a day off in June is always nice. :)
It’s been a thing longer than you’ve been alive. It just hadn’t spread to most white people. It’s only recently become a thing that everyone is aware of.
I did research afterwards. It seems to be something from Texas IIRC. I’m nowhere near Texas.
Texas is where the very last slaves were freed, Galveston to be specific. That said, it’s been celebrated in black communities (on and off because racism) outside of Texas for over a century
I read about it. It seemed interesting. I think we have gotten used to the world of 24 hour news and quick responses that the scale of the USA seems small now, even Texas. I didn’t know it was celebrated on and off. I didn’t know about it until 2022.
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Not knowing what something* was in 2022 and thinking it was a typo does not make me a racist. It just makes me not knowledgeable on the subject. I also worked in very small team and we were the only ones in the office due to the pandemic. So, little info was shared. We never heard of it, so we thought it was a typo.
I’m sorry this offended you so much. If you saw a calendar labeled Setember instead of September, would you consider that racist or a typo? These errors were common for people to make. It was also added to our calendar that year for the first time.
alright. my apologies for taking such an ungracious stance. it was just hard for me to fathom:
- someone not having any neighbors growing up with Juneteenth Jubilee cookouts
- not hearing about the decades long petition to the federal government starting in the nineteen sixties to recognize Juneteenth as a holiday
- not seeing any of the Juneteenth media coverage in 2021 when there was a full on blitz to introduce people to their newest holiday celebration
- seeing a calendar event on June Nineteeth named “Juneteenth” and immediately assuming it was a typo for an intentional calendar event named “June Nineteenth” and then correcting it
all the people i’ve met who don’t think Juneteenth should be a holiday come in one of two flavors:
- (the more common one) think Black history is irrelevant and that the holiday is a modern recent construct
- (the more radical one) think Juneteenth should be a holiday that is only implemented by the people it represents once they are adequately represented in whatever system of government replaces the one that refuses to pay reparations
i defaulted from past experience into assuming you fit into category 1, and for that i apologize. lord knows i’ve experienced things reaching my knowledge base later than others because information that truly matters spreads slow, and the internet has not been the accelerant to information spread we often delude ourselves into thinking it is.
i grew up being told, by Asian people, that “Asian” is a slur to them, and that it unfairly lumps them all into a single category. the term they asked me to use instead is considered by most Asians today to be outdated, and a slur.
again. i take ownership of that i jumped too fast to being unkind, and that this was ultimately unconstructive. i will work harder to do better in the future
You are good. I appreciate that. I came from not knowing about it at all. I didn’t know it was such a big thing. This comment made up for it. I don’t watch the news, I don’t even own a TV, saying I live under a rock would be an understatement at times. Can I ask, are you from the Texas area?
Not at all. I’m from Central Appalachia in Virginia.
I’m genuinely a little surprised. I’m not that far from Virginia either. I really wonder why I hadn’t heard anything about Juneteenth prior to recently then.
I grew up in Central Maryland (in the county) and one of my best friends was half black. The high was also 70% black. It wasn’t a thing in the late eighties in that area.
I never heard of it till it became a federal holiday.
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I get it. I thought about it. But I felt clarity was important. And I don’t regret it. They left a very nice comment and I get what they were saying.
Imagine being salty about losing a war that you didn’t fight, your fathers didn’t fight, nor your father’s father, nor your father’s father’s father.
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