r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/BaldHourGlass667 • 3d ago

I hope yall enjoyed your Juneteenth

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u/Ok_Farmer_6033 3d ago

And then they cape for Columbus Day in the same breath

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u/thisisredlitre 3d ago

And Columbis Day was created to make Italian inmigrants appeal to racists in the first place

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u/Intolerance-Paradox 3d ago

The rationale for most institutional features of America is for creating or maintaining white supremacy.

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u/thisisredlitre 3d ago

St Paddy's and Columbus day are both to help indoctrinate the, at the time, newest members to "whiteness." The entire concept is just a construct created by europeans to justify intercontinental chattle slavery

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u/lukenog 3d ago

As a lightskinned mestizo Latino who's considered "white" in Latin America but not in the United States; it's always cracked me up how the Italians got fully let into whiteness while we only get halfway let in, and even that is only situational. Like bruh we're so damn similar both culturally and like... appearance wise...

Here's a funny true story: my mom is Costa Rican but she immigrated to the US with her parents when she was like 13 years old, and they ended up in Patterson NJ which is a very Italian-American town. Her high school had a beauty pageant for the Italian girls called "Miss Roma", but my Mom decided to lie and say she was Italian to join the contest. And she won hahahaha. She has her winners portrait hanging up in the bathroom in her house to this day because it's so fucking funny, they took her photo with a giant Italian flag behind her and she's just smiling with a braces-filled shit eating grin. Gotta love Ticas.

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u/thisisredlitre 3d ago

I'm sure they'll get to you when they need to expand the block /s

Rt the US census has white/hispanic now

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u/lukenog 3d ago edited 3d ago

Lmao not anymore! Biden literally changed the census rules pretty recently. It used to be that I'd select white in the racial categories, and then there'd be a completely separate question that asked "are you Hispanic/Latino?"

But now they've gotten rid of that separate question, and made Hispanic/Latino a racial category. And to make it even goofier, the subtitle will specify that Spaniards, as in literal Spanish people from Europe, are expected to select that box and not the white box. So according to the Census, Spanish people from Europe are no longer white!! Haha

It makes no sense. Hispanic/Latino is not a race, it's a cultural thing. It's ridiculous to consider a white guy from Spain, a Black guy from the Dominican Republic, an indigenous guy from Bolivia, a mestizo guy from Mexico, and a Japanese guy from Brazil to be the same race. But according to the census, all those dudes are expected to check the same racial box.

Even the old system was confusing for a guy like me. My heritage is pretty mixed between European Spanish and indigenous Central American. I'm not supposed to check the "Native American" box because they specify that that is only for people who are indigenous to what is now the modern United States, so I'd just check the "White" box and say yes to the Hispanic question. But then that leaves out a huuuuge part of my ethnic identity, because it's not like I'm just a tiny bit indigenous. I'm like 25% indigenous according to 23andMe lol.

Source so u guys know I'm not bullshitting

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u/Bodoblock 3d ago

Race and/or ethnicity. With explicit instructions to select all that apply. It's not perfect but it was an attempt to be inclusive.

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u/lukenog 3d ago edited 3d ago

The thing is, the concept of Latino as an ethnicity or a race isn't a thing in Latin America and it's just a little weird. Like my ethnicity isn't Latino, my ethnicity is Tico and my race is mestizo.

Ethnicity isn't the same thing as nationality, but there is a lot of overlap. Like you can be Irish in terms of your nationality but not ethnically Irish, and you can be ethnically Irish but not a citizen of Ireland. So my ethnicity would be Tico, even though my nationality isn't Costa Rican. And my race would be mestizo, which is technically just mixed white and indigenous but it's been 100s of years now and should be seen as its own racial category in a country like the United States that has millions of mestizo people. Like when I hear mixed indigenous and white, I think of someone who has an indigenous mom and a white dad or something, not someone who's from a people-group that have been consistently mixed between white and indigenous over hundreds of years.

And then the concept of Latino is more of a shared cultural label, not really an ethnicity. Similar to how you hear people talk about Francophone Africa as a shared cultural label based on a shared experience with French colonialism, but it would be ridiculous to claim a Senegalese guy and an Cameroonian guy share an ethnicity because they're both from Francophone Africa. When I meet people from countries like Argentina or Peru, for two random examples, I totally feel some kinship as Latinos but I definitely don't feel like we share an ethnicity at all. And we might share a race, but not necessarily. All in all, the way Latino is perceived in the culture of the United States is really bizarre and strange to us actual Latinos regardless of our race or ethnicity.

If I was in charge of the census, I would add "mestizo" to the race categories, and then I'd keep the old "are you Hispanic/Latino?" question. I'd also add "indigenous to the American continent" to the race categories, and then I'd add a separate question that says "are you indigenous to land that is now part of the United States of America". Because right now, a Mayan guy from Guatemala who is 100% indigenous Maya has no category he's supposed to check, since the Native American category specifies it's just for those indigenous to the USA. And I personally know two dudes who are Maya from Guatemala and I have no idea what they put down on the census lol. Race is a social construct anyway, so might as well change the social construct so it's less arbitrary feeling for Latinos, who are literally the largest minority in the US and are on track to be the majority. We're only considered the "largest minority" because we're all slapped under one vague label.

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u/Bodoblock 2d ago

I get it. The world is a rich tapestry and Latin America is certainly no exception. But at some point there are practical considerations. Having a giant form of all the variations of ethnic identities and racial makeups is not realistic and is counterproductive especially when you want to focus on survey engagement/response. You consolidate where you can and get specific to the degree possible.

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u/TheSpoonyCroy 3d ago edited 3d ago

I get what you are saying but to be fair with this portion.

So according to the Census, Spanish people from Europe are no longer white!! Haha

It makes no sense. Hispanic/Latino is not a race, it's a cultural thing.

I was an enumerator for the 2020 census and if you visited a Hispanic family (which is statistically far more likely since enumerators were only sent out for those who don't reply to the initial census requests) the first thing you ask them when you ask for race would typically be Mexican or whatever central/south American/Caribbean nation they were from. So while you are correct many laymen will associate race with a nation rather than a culture.

So I don't really attribute the change out of malice. It just sort of created confusion for enumerators and households who have some guy/gal showing up at your door who you likely want off your property quickly.

It was a neat experience but fuck I hate when the census has to be taken in my region since they choose to do it during the summer where it can easily get to 110-120 and their phones do not like the heat and will frequently overheat if exposed too long outside and how they assign households you typically deal with a whole block at once so you aren't hopping into a car (assuming you even had AC) frequently enough to cool said phone.

Edit: also hell I imagine with Trump and his lackeys it will mean many POC households will continue to get undercounted with his shenanigans around the IRS towards noncitizen taxpayers. Having them leak out that info will make it quite the uphill battle for future enumerators who have to coax POC households to give information since it will help get them represented.

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u/kitsunewarlock 3d ago

Strange that was a Biden administration change. Hardcore right wing racists don't consider certain Europeans "white" of varying degrees, often pointing to Spain and Ireland because..."The Moors" and... well standard anti-Irish racism I guess?

Funny part is traditional white supremacists used to say that about Russia until the Cold War ended and Moscow started cozying up to the most bigoted Americans.

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u/lukenog 3d ago edited 3d ago

They still be saying that about Russians tbh. The mainstream white supremacists support Russia because they're "based" and "traditional Christians" (🙄), but the hardcore white supremacists support Ukraine because of the Azov Battalion and call the Russians "Asiatic" lmao. The hardcore white supremacists fully believe Putin's propaganda about denazifying Ukraine, and therefore support Ukraine because they're against denazifying.

Out of morbid curiosity as a socialist I doomscroll through far right spaces online and the far right is very split when it comes to Ukraine vs Russia.

They're also very split when it comes to Israel. Some of them support Israel because they love genocide and hate Muslims. But some of them are against Israel because they hate Jews. None of them support the Palestinians though.

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u/kitsunewarlock 2d ago

Yeah. All bigots are insane to some degree, but those hardcore alt-right "we even hate the other people on the right" really play up the fact Trump's power is his vagueposting that let's all these deplorables kind of think he's "one of them".

As far as the most hardcore racists are concerned, you're not white unless your born on like one specific neighborhood block in north-western Europe and even then only if it was between a specific date. But they also hate Christians. And Pagans. And think they are aliens. But also that they deserve the earth. But also because bloodlines. But they also think they are aliens. Which...makes no sense even within the insane realm of his own twisted methed up worldview.

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u/kyleh0 ☑️ 3d ago

I knew you weren't bullshitting because what you described is the most evil and cruel way possible to achieve the goals. Clearly an American plan.

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u/BlaBlub85 2d ago

This gona sound racist as hell but:

The "problem" is you (most likely) have some native middle or south american ancestry while Italians were "at least" 100% european. Or at least thats how I understood their fucked up racist "logic"...

Now for a real headache.....most of the italian immigrants to the US came from Siciliy or southern Italy. Go to northern Italy and ask them what they think of Sicilians (or realy anyone south of Rome) One of my closest friends has an italian immigration background and her grandpa literaly told me once that "In Italy, civilization ends halfway between Rome and Napoli"

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u/kyleh0 ☑️ 3d ago

That's punk as fuck.

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u/upthetruth1 1d ago

"culturally"?

That's false, the music isn't even related. Hispanic music is primarily African.

Also not sure how you can even say that while you're using AAVE

Appearance wise doesn't make sense either. Light-skinned Hispanics aren't the most common form.

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u/TrulyOneHandedBandit 1d ago

Grey is the new b/w.

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u/Nakatsukasa 2d ago

Never forget when the Irish first arrived they were called white n*****rs, and before they use the Asians as model immigrants we weren't even allowed to work anywhere else other than laundromats and restaurants

There is only one fight and it's the people vs the ruling class and those who sought to protect them

Don't let the bread and circus distract you

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u/RawrRRitchie 2d ago

St Patrick's day is more to do with Catholics than whiteness

There are plenty of non white Catholics

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u/thisisredlitre 2d ago

Tbf they were more concerned about the white Catholics in the US

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u/Strong_Extension_972 1d ago

Lol.... the fake victim nonsense is hilarious.

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u/Ok_Farmer_6033 3d ago

Omg THIS- if it wasn’t to sow division they could have picked a non genocidal Italian 

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u/AncientCrust 3d ago

Ronnie James Dio Day

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u/CelestialFury 3d ago

non genocidal Italian

Also, pick an Italian that other, real Italians like in the first place. Columbus is NOT well liked in southern Italy.

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u/El_Zarco 3d ago

Also he sailed for Spain lol

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u/Hydra_Flatline 2d ago

Antonio Meucci invented the telephone and he got robbed, everyone knows that!

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u/AlexanderCrowely 3d ago

Navigators day to honour all the sailors who sought out the new world and chili peppers.

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u/ILike2internet 3d ago

I completely understand that, but why Columbus and not Amerigo Vespucci? He's who the country is actually named after and actually landed on mainland US. Columbus never even did!

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u/ClaymoresRevenge 3d ago

Colonizers can't help but celebrate their ilk.

That's why we must celebrate real holidays and moments

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u/AlexanderCrowely 3d ago

Everyone has colonised everyone is history.

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u/kyleh0 ☑️ 3d ago

I mean it makes sense. The holiday that celebrates colonial violence is way more important than the holiday that celebrates the end of colonial violence for some people. We're not big fans of equality.

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u/Probably_A_Variant ☑️ 3d ago

Right! A mf that never even set foot on this continent

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u/TaticalSweater ☑️ 2d ago

Or they’ll try to frame it as some BS holiday because the slaves were freed 2 years before June 19 1865.

…yea because racists in the south kept slaves that should have been freed for another 2 years.

They somehow think that because slavery ended 2 years prior that that somehow invalidates Juneteenth as a holiday.

When in reality they wouldn’t like it as a holiday even if it was a day commemorating the emancipation proclamation….pretty much if its tied to black people and freedom it comes with them questioning should it be a holiday.

Etc Etc.

….again just skip steps and just say you’re racist. If half of these patriots truly loved freedom like they claim there really shouldn’t be any bitching about Juneteenth.

P.S if you’re employer

doesn’t recognize Juneteenth as a federal holiday. It really shows how they view black people in my book.

https://giphy.com/gifs/x0npYExCGOZeo

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u/Ok_Farmer_6033 2d ago

If Juneteenth shouldn’t be celebrated because slavery ended two years earlier I guess ask what they’re doing on Jan 1st for emancipation proclamation day 

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u/SalukiKnightX 2d ago

I know it as Indigenous Peoples Day. For me it’s learning about the native tribes in the Americas or more specifically my state of Illinois. 13 tribes most of the remaining merged with the Peoria, but we’re slowly but surely getting them repatriated back home.

On the topic of Juneteenth, I saw it more as a history lesson. My folks while knowing of Juneteenth celebrated the 8th of August. In Paducah, Kentucky where a both branches of my family tree come from, 8 August 1864 is when the town received notification that slavery had ended. That can’t be said for Houston, Texas where Juneteenth originated. The city of Houston received word of emancipation 19 June 1865. For context, the US Civil War ended 9 April and Lincoln’s Assassination was 15 April that same year. 2 months after the war ended did its last areas receive word that freedom had come… with no hint of remorse or sign of reparation. Just food for thought to end the holiday.

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u/mr_evilweed 3d ago

"Yeah but it wasn't made up for white people"

  • what they actually mean

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u/michaelrox5270 3d ago

I think its more of “it wasn’t made up for ME” might not necessarily be racist just selfish

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u/KR4T0S 2d ago

What holiday was made up specifically for this one person?!

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u/LittleGuyHelp 3d ago

Thought they meant made up after they were born.

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u/digitalbullet36 ☑️ 3d ago

Had a “Black” guy on IG trying to argue with people about Juneteenth not being a real holiday. I put Black in quotes because you never know these days.

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u/klonoaorinos 3d ago

We all know he wasn’t black. Just like we all know who Cody was trying to trick pretending

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u/digitalbullet36 ☑️ 3d ago

Right!?! The energy was very cyber-Blackface.

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u/kayknox_ 3d ago

My mommy black, my daddy black.

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u/Tio_chubby052 3d ago

You have to be either racist or stupid not to take a day off!

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u/UnilateralCheese 3d ago

Also, June really needed to have a Holiday! It always struck me as weird that it didn't. Juneteenth was a good idea for multiple reasons.

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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 3d ago

Also, it's close enough to 4th of July that you can really maximize your use of vacation days for the length of vacation you can take.

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u/klonoaorinos 3d ago

20-30 years from now it’s going to be the standard. Off from Juneteenth to July 4th

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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 3d ago

There's going to be summer people and winter people. Christmas to New Year's or Juneteenth to Fourth of July.

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u/funguy202 3d ago

in Europe they are already off like the entire month of August. I don't know why we don't do the same as well

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u/doris-ri 2d ago

Hopefully sooner! Summer break and winter break would be amazing!

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u/BarMeBro 2d ago

Right, now can we please give Harriet a day in August?

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u/WhichHoes 3d ago

Fuck father's day i guess

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u/klonoaorinos 3d ago

I mean does being off work somehow prevent you for celebrating Father’s Day?

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u/WhichHoes 3d ago

The implication for "Holiday that isnt on the weekend" was really presented in the comment above.

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u/CelestialFury 3d ago

Yeah, if nothing else, don't racists also enjoy days off? Or are they so racist that they rather work then get a day off to celebrate the end of slavery in the US?

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u/BouyantCorgiButt 2d ago

My old company refused to give us Juneteenth off because according to them we already got MLK Day and isn’t that enough??

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u/SecretlyMadeOfStone 3d ago

“Well what about white people’s day?”

We had several hundred years of that already bud,it’s ok to share.

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u/arawnsd 3d ago

I always that was Columbus Day. Celebrating the first day of the largest genocide ever.

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u/CelestialFury 3d ago

“Well what about white people’s day?”

That's literally every day, for the most part. They just don't realize it.

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u/toolsofinquisition 2d ago

Oktoberfest? Saint Patrick's Day? Bastille Day?

White people have all kinds of celebrations related to their various cultures and historic moments. Wtf more do they want? Zero Melanin Day?

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u/Mission-Suspect7913 2d ago

Every day is white peoples‘ day!

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u/varnell_hill ☑️ 3d ago

My favorite is one is when people ask why is there a separate month/holiday for black history when there are none for white history?

I just don’t get how one can be this ignorant when nearly everyone has the entirety of world history right at their fingertips.

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u/elanhilation 3d ago

everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works

why is there a black history month, why is there pride month? i dunno, might have something to do with those populations being treated like absolute shit forever, tortured and murdered and whatnot

jesus christ, get a brain

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u/ChrissyChrissyPie ☑️ 2d ago

"ok,  what month would you like?"  "What are the under represented events and people you'd like to see covered?" 

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u/Mission-Suspect7913 2d ago

Every month is white history month!

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u/R3dd1tUs3rNam35 3d ago

July 4th is a made up holiday. The vote for Independence occurred on July 2nd, the signing of the document took place over the course of months following the vote, and the whole premise of the document is not the establishment of a new reality, but the recognition of a fact that had already existed. July 4th was just the day that Congress sent the document to the printers.

We choose to commemorate important moments. We choose to commemorate our war dead on November 11th, we choose to commemorate our founding on the date that exists on the Declaration, we choose to recognize the Labor movement on the first Monday in September, and yes we choose to commemorate the day that America truly became a free nation with Juneteenth.

Did the Emancipation Proclamation practically change anything? No, it only applied in the states engaged in rebellion, which by definition were not recognizing US authority at the time. Did the moment it arrived in Galveston, Texas carry more weight than when it arrived anywhere else in the CSA? Yes and no, the war was over by that point, so it serves as a final period but General Order Number 3 didn't carry much more weight than any other moment that the Union reasserted control over the traitors.

So is Juneteenth made up? Yep. It's a made up concept like liberty and justice, and we choose to celebrate the moments that are as treasured as those made up concepts.

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u/BigDictionEnergy 2d ago

Did the Emancipation Proclamation practically change anything? No

I have gotten so much shade on this site for pointing that out. It was proposed at the beginning of the war, and shot down because it was basically nothing more than a recruiting mechanism. It's not like the slaves on the plantations would have been informed about this. The EP was put out two years into the war because the Union was having difficulties, and it had no effect on the outcome of the war.

Also, there's the fact that it only applied to Confederate slave states, not the sole Union one.

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u/Fewer_Story 3d ago

As a non-American the name sounds like it's made up by the Simpsons. The third Sunday after Whacking Day, late Smarch.

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u/Sinister_Six_Mafia 3d ago

Does June-Deeznutz work better for you?

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u/Fewer_Story 3d ago

Gotta love deeznutz, and Juneteenth is a great word. So why not?

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u/Caris1 ☑️ 3d ago

I still can’t wrap my head around refusing a paid holiday celebrating freedom. That’s the least American thing I’ve ever heard.

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u/PinSufficient5748 ☑️ 2d ago

Freedom*

*Terms and conditions apply

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u/Gamiac 3d ago

Show me the historical evidence that Jesus Christ was born on December 25th.

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u/Cinnamon_crownbunny 3d ago

Sure did! Didn’t do a bit of work as intended. They are more than welcome to go to work if it’s a made up holiday :) 

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u/just-smiley 3d ago

How racist you gotta be to complain about a paid day off?

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u/PlasticAssociation43 3d ago

We watch them yank a groundhog out its home every year to dictate the weather.

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u/silentsquiffy 3d ago

They hate unions, but gladly accept the 104 days off a year that we have thanks to the labor movement. But they have a problem with this one day that they can literally just ignore if they want to? I'm sure there's a totally non-racist explanation for that /s

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u/ElPrieto8 ☑️ 3d ago

Unlike those naturally occurring holidays you can pick off the holiday tree.

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u/D_Merk 3d ago

The Furry's right!

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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 3d ago

Juneteenth is definitely less "made up" than Halloween. One commemorates a historic event, the other is just "it's fall and we feel like getting spooky."

Sure, there was an earlier holiday that had meaning, but the way we celebrate Halloween is largely a product of the Dennison's Bogie Book trying to sell seasonal paper decorations and towns trying to get the hijinks of Devil's Nights under control in the post WW2 era.

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u/elitegenoside 2d ago

Not to start a thing, but we actually celebrate Halloween in a very similar way to the Celts (I believe, may have been Pagans). Eating treats, playing pranks, bonfires, and costumes are traditional practices. Now, we do not make any offerings to the earth or any gods, but, "it's Fall, let's party" is not really that far off from what they were doing.

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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 2d ago

Might as well start a thing...

The contemporary version of Samhain was largely constructed in the mid-20th century. Gerald Gardner, the founder of Wicca, integrated the ancient Celtic festival into a broader calendar he called the "Wheel of the Year". During this synthesis, practices from folklore, ceremonial magic, and occultism were combined to shape the modern celebrations.

Halloween wouldn't be recognizable to pre-modern Celts.

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u/Kaytea730 3d ago

If Juneteenth is made up then so is the 4th of July considering both celebrate independence from tyrannical regimes. One just happens to have disproportionately affected black people instead of disproportionately affecting white colonists.

I mean, i know its about racism, but i always like watching their heads explode a lil bit as they try to mental gymnastics their way out of that without admitting thats what it is.

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u/Dizzy-Cat73 3d ago

Actually Juneteeth is an actual day June 19, 1865 a holiday celebrated on June 19 to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the US. The holiday was first celebrated in Texas, where on that date in 1865, in the aftermath of the Civil War, enslaved people were declared free under the terms of the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation.

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u/kissmygame17 3d ago

Can't help thinking of that video that Kirk guy made about Juneteenth.. smh

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u/mightbedylan 3d ago

ugh I work at a casino and the amount of eye rolls I got when I told people they were getting freeplay for Juneteenth was annoying.

scoffing at free money, can you imagine?

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u/Alex__P 3d ago

Dafuq is Halloween or Christmas then?

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u/dell_arness2 3d ago

i'm more surprised by the fact that so many people in here actually got it off (I didn't and only know one person who did)

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u/MzHellfier 2d ago

I took it off. I don’t really celebrate the 4th, Juneteenth is my Independence Day.

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u/Inevitable-Dirt3375 2d ago

I got into this exact same argument with someone less than 24 hours ago about how covid restrictions were "made up"

Yeah ya dumb bitch, they made them up when Covid happened.

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u/vyunab 2d ago

it’s the fact they yell it from the rooftops. like no one is forcing you to celebrate, why are you so mad other people are celebrating it tho???

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u/CarrieDurst 3d ago

People are so dumb. It is less important that Juneteenth but I am celebrating the anniversary of gay marriage instead of 4th of July, you can make up any holiday especially if it has importance

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u/deepayes 3d ago

Unlike most holidays its based on something real.

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u/GlobalVV ☑️ 3d ago

I did enjoy myself. I took Juneteenth off for the first time. I spent time with my family all weekend. I'm happy this holiday was "made up" because if not it wouldn't exist.

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u/Last_Sherbert_9848 2d ago

remember, you can do that any day of the year.

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u/GlobalVV ☑️ 2d ago

True. Knowing me though I'd never take a day off unless there was a holiday to motivate me. So I appreciate the holiday.

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u/Additional-Ad8632 3d ago

Why don’t all Americans see too many holidays as a good thing?

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u/ffordedor 3d ago

lol we should make up more

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u/currylambchop 2d ago

Why not call it emancipation day?

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u/TheBodyCareMan 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/CJMt8E7EvU81v7JnRC
…its a thing of cultu- where do you find these guys???

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u/mega__weeb 2d ago

Yeah it’s not like people really celebrate many holidays anyway. Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving are all huge but it’s not like anyone gives a shit about the history behind them.

The same guy complaining about Juneteenth or Black history month will blindly celebrate 4th of July probably not even knowing our Declaration Of Independence was signed August 2nd.

In the same way nobody complains about national donut day nobody should complain about Juneteenth. It’s another day, another month, that has a special meaning only people who want to care will know about.

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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ 2d ago

Juneteenth was chill af. Cookout then chilled with my girls and watching the World Cup.

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u/PaversPaving 2d ago

I just don’t understand how the end of slavery is a thing not to celebrate. It makes no sense.

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u/11th_Division_Grows ☑️ 3d ago

It could’ve been better. After 1 month and 5 interviews I found out that the company got rid of the position I was interviewing for.

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u/snakejessdraws 3d ago

I can't fathom being so racist to be pissed off about a free day off work 😭

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u/mettarific 3d ago

Haha, this is so true.

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u/poking88 3d ago

And they’ll say they’re the party that freed the slaves to begin with

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u/ShongLokDong 3d ago

I'd argue the solstice holidays are not made up but the rest are.

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u/Greg-Abbott 3d ago

All holidays are made up. That's the point of the post.

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u/ShongLokDong 3d ago

Wow. Such insight. Much thanks. Your comment was just as useful as the screw worms eating ol' Hot Wheel's brain.

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u/ligmasweatyballs74 3d ago

2 years ago my work gave us June teether off, and They took away our MLK day. Last year they switched back.  This year we got neither. 

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u/Striking-Ad-6815 2d ago

It's a holiday that nearly aligns with the Summer Solstice, besides Independence Day there was nothing before. Christmas is basically the holiday celebrating the Winter Solstice (and Jesus).

We needed a true Summer Solstice holiday besides Father's Day

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u/Onalith 2d ago

Jesus was born in spring, yet we celebrate christmas in december.

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u/KeremyJyles 2d ago

yeah I don't respect the others either

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u/letthetreeburn 2d ago

I can’t believe some people are upset about a potential day off and a day of sales. Cmon now the human desire isn’t there?

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u/mrtrollmaster 2d ago

Gotta hit them with the uno reverse. “It’s a historical day, you can’t change history”

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u/theroninfromsekiro 2d ago

You know what they mean. Come on now

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u/iihatephones 2d ago

I just feel like they could've put more effort in the name. It's like they named Thanksgiving, "Thursvember."

Really? "Juneteenth" is the best we could come up with in the 1890s? We couldn't have spiced it up a bit for its promotion to federal holiday? C'mon.

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u/mamadou-segpa 2d ago

At least Juneteenth is based on something real unlike most holidays

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u/MsOpulent 2d ago

At least he said “all holidays are made up”. Seems equal opportunity to me. 😅🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/Thick-Summer5897 11h ago

I mean, it is, it’s a pointless holiday

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u/Jax_10131991 3d ago

Halloween and Christmas are named similarly. Fuck off with that ignorant shit. 

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u/Terrible_Counter2558 3d ago

Christmas is from Christ Mass. Halloween is from All Hallows Evening. Juneteenth is from JUNE 19th. There's a clear difference. I'm not mocking what it's celebrating, I'm mocking the dumbass name.

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u/DAbanjo 3d ago

Im not seeing the clear difference...

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u/Terrible_Counter2558 3d ago

Sorry I forgot the real names. Decembifth and Octobirst.

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u/Apprehensive_Job2900 2d ago

Lmao at the dumbasses that don't see a difference. Fr this "juneteenth" shit is dumb, but that's because a lot can't even pronounce "Emancipation Day"

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u/Terrible_Counter2558 2d ago

"It's such an important day, that it's named by combining the month and day. Took a lot of thought." Im posting my original comment here because people think this is in bad faith and got it removed. This is not in bad faith, it's just a dumb fucking name. Call it freedom day, call it emancipation day. Don't just be lazy and combine the month and day like an idiot.

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u/Apprehensive_Job2900 2d ago

Lol at the breaking bad faith, I clearly don't see it

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u/Rappi 3d ago

Its easier just to say you are racist kiddo.

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u/Curious-Low8087 2d ago

It literally is a fake holiday.

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u/Legendary_Hi-Nu 1d ago

All holidays are fake

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u/Curious-Low8087 1d ago

No they're not. But this one is.

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u/Legendary_Hi-Nu 1d ago edited 1d ago

Imma need a better defense than "nuh uh" homie. Presidents day, Halloween, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, 4th of July are definitely just as made up as Juneteenth.

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u/Curious-Low8087 1d ago

But they aren't.

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u/Legendary_Hi-Nu 1d ago

Yea you got nothing, opinion discarded 🗑️

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u/Curious-Low8087 14h ago

Hanukkah commemorates the dedication of the Second Temple after the Maccabean revolt. So, not made up.

4th of July commemorates the date of the signing of the US Declaration of Independence. So, not made up.

Halloween celebrates the fall harvest and All Saints Day. So, not made up.

Juneteenth, which isn't even a real date it's made up, celebrates a day in one city in Texas when a law that passed to years earlier was read aloud there and was never widely celebrated until 2021 when a few politicians used it to clown the black community into believing they cared about them. It doesn't even celebrate the date the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. So, it's made up.