Not knowing what someone 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 the term they asked me to use instead is considered by most Asians today to be outdated, and a slur.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?
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.
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Not knowing what someone 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:
all the people i’ve met who don’t think Juneteenth should be a holiday come in one of two flavors:
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.
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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.