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:

1. (the more common one) think Black history is irrelevant and that the holiday is a modern recent construct
2. (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 the term they asked me to use instead is considered by most Asians today to be outdated, and a slur.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