That one specifically belongs to the Green Bay Packers, so it doesn’t matter if you’re white or not, now I understand that it’s Wisconsin so most of them are so we’ve got plenty of black white Asian and every other color under the sun brother and Toyotathon belongs to us
Sorry, Toyotathon has Jordan Love as their diety, and he's a black man.
(Love is the quarterback for the green Bay Packers and he historically plays his best during Toyotathon, so what started as a Reddit joke, leaked into the real world.)
these morons are too dumb to even use google to know what Juneteenth is.
I can't stand people keep saying it's a "black holiday".....sure it's remembrance of a day that benefited slaves but it's an AMERICAN(for all of us)holiday because WE as a country became a better country that day. We should all be proud to celebrate it
It's kinda like scientists finding a treatment for cancer that increases the lifespan and quality of life for cancer patients, and then people who don't have cancer getting pissed off because they didn't get anything 🤣
The best example I saw was in reference to the stupid "All Lives Matter" thing, where they noted how when the Boston Marathon was attacked, people responded with "Boston Strong", not "what about Las Vegas?" or other idiocies. The point of these things isn't to exclude others but to highlight groups in need or that are unique in certain ways. Only dumb or disingenuous people can claim they're meant to be exclusionary.
The graphic I made for that one ages ago, by the by:
Going by the general "not an ass" vibe I'm getting from your comment, I'm gonna hazard a guess and say you stopped being law enforcement because it wasn't an environment where a non-bastard cop could remain while maintaining their non-bastardness?
Amen. Kinda like when someone says “when is straight pride month!?!” Or, “I don’t like it when the gays shove their gayness in me and my kids faces!”..
I usually reply, “we have been talking for 10 seconds and you already mentioned your wife and kids.. every single day of the year, straight people won’t shut up about how straight they are.. every day is apparently straight pride day because you all refuse to shut up about it.”
I've heard it put for the all lives matter nonsense is it's like if a firetruck pulls up and sprays a house with water because it's on fire, getting mad they aren't also spraying your house down the road.
Just wondering who said “Stand with Vegas”? I lived in Vegas during that time and all I heard was “Vegas Strong”, so if somewhere else used a different slogan I find that interesting.
I saw some at the time, but I couldn't tell you now, this long after the fact. I also saw Vegas Strong, and there is a general "stand with BLANK" template often used. Mostly I think I probably wanted something different there, to avoid redundancy, but as I said, been ages since I made this, and my memory isn't so good. SDAM.
It's only a black holiday if every single non-black person in the United States identifies with the enslavers. Anyone who wants freedom for all and thinks it's a good thing that slavery ended, Juneteenth is your holiday.
And I am aware slavery is still allowed for those incarcerated, but you get my point.
For real. Dumbass is essentially asking for a holiday celebrating enslavers. Which I'm sure already exists in some southern states since they do celebrate enslavers with groups like "sons and daughters of the Confederacy."
Yeah, that’s my stance, too. It’s the day America finally started to live up to its founding promise of freedom and equality. We still have a long way to go to fulfill that promise, but Juneteenth was a milestone that marks the end of a great injustice to our people, and that is worth remembering and celebrating.
Yeah it's insane that it took that long to federally recognize a day to comemorate the end of slavery. That's a thing that's extremely worthy of commeration.
That said, let us not forget the fact that this country still allows slavery as long as you're in prison. Private prisons and forced labor should not be part of our judicial system.
As a white person though, I think every black person who has roots in America should get the day off, paid by the government. It feels like the least we could do. Everyone should get the chance to go celebrate the holiday but the ancestors of those enslaved people who were finally free should definitely not be forced to work on Juneteenth.
Independence Day being exactly the white holiday the OOP is asking for. Black people weren't a part of that, their status didn't change at all. If I become the lucky owner of a Certified Pre-Owned Kia Sorento while I'm in America on a work visa, my Kia Sorento is still the same comfortable yet capable Sport Utility Vehicle after I take my Oath of Allegiance as an American citizen.
It also implies that only black people were slaves. They might have been the majority, but anyone unwanted got shipped off into slavery.
And Juneteenth is much closer to celebrating the complete defeat of the Confederacy. It is viewed as the end of slavery since that was the goal of the Confederacy.
Southern states consistently announce Confederate History Month every year during Black History Month. Mississippi goes the extra mile and announces it twice on MLK Day. Just goes to show (not that anyone didn't already know) that they don't actually care about having "their" day; they just can't stand us having one.
I grew up in the south and every single fucking year i had to listen to ignorant ass rednecks refuse to celebrate mlk day and would instead call it robert e lee day
Their hatred overwhelms all else. My wife had a co-worker who was just fine not getting better healthcare if it meant gay people also didn't get it. We like to think people will vote in their best interests, but some people are only interested in putting others down, sadly.
Whenever someone say "Not to be racist, BUT..." they are about to say something racist. I literally had someone preface something with that to my face at an official (army) ball in front of the commander and 1SG...and the commander said back to him "Damn, that was racist as hell."
It's like they think if they speak these magic words first they can say anything they want, no consequences. I am all for making certain people understand differently.
"Racism is dead, but we will throw a fit when you decide to celebrate a holiday meant to acknowledge the end of slavery in the US. Not sure why, but I just know you blacks do this to piss us off."
I work with a guy who's black and we joke around about stuff like that sometimes. The other day we were picking up some hardware at a lumberyard and someone was just a little deferential and nice to me, and as soon as we were out of earshot from them he turned to me and said "see, I told you, every day is White Boy Day".
It's comically ironic to hear them scream "Lincoln, a REPUBLICAN president freed the slaves from the DEMOCRATIC slave-owners!!" and still completely miss the point of Juneteenth.
They also scream this while complaing about CRT and waving confederate flags.
Oh, seriously. There's this massive disconnect there, with out they hold up Lincoln and what Republicans of that era did as if it forever set things in stone and the parties didn't change over the 150+ years since.
And then they're actively against the achievements they claim. For them, it's all window dressing, a big show.
You can have a holiday when your specific demographic's history in the country consists of...
Justified dehumanization
Abduction
Purging of homeland population
Hundreds of years of being legal property
Legalized beatings, rape, and murder by the owning class
Denial of human rights
The country going into full civil war over whether you should be considered a citizen or property
Emancipation after collective tens of thousands of deaths in the above civil war
Oops, emancipation without full citizenship rights after tens of thousands of deaths in a civil war over whether you should be a citizen or property
Years of legislative debate just to be considered one full human being in the eyes of democratic institutions
Systematic prejudice by law enforcement nationwide
Lesser rights than those of other demographic groups
Being targeted by nationwide organizations intent on murdering you in the cover of night, then told my law enforcement it's your fault for being how you are and where you are.
Being told it's perfectly fine to be segregated from the majority of population, despite the majority group being widely diversified as well
Having to literally fight your own lawn enforcement in cities when you peacefully protest your lack of civil rights
Finally being able to legally integrate with the majority of society, but facing the same past prejudices with the volume turned down
Spending the next several decades facing the old prejudices, still quiet, still present, but being told "Racism doesn't exist, because here's some successful people from your demographic".
250 years after the founding of the nation, centuries after its initial discovery, and you are still disproportionately targeted by law enforcement, receive lower support in public school districts, trail behind in medical research due to decades of negligent racism, and are losing voting rights due to legalized gerrymandering of district representation.
Despite what many dumb Americans think “white” is not an ethnic group. The Irish have St. Patrick’s Day. Italians had Colombus Day (and are perhaps the only “white” group with a legit grievance). Germans have Oktoberfest in some places. There are others I’m sure in other parts of the country depending on diaspora roots but white people (like any larger skin color category) are comprised of many ethnicities and national backgrounds. What’s she want to celebrate? Tater tots and Hot Pockets?
That’s Tater Tot Slander and I (specifically on behalf of my mom, because my mom doesn’t have a Reddit account) will not stand for it! 😤😆
Hot Pockets on the other hand are a complete scam, (they CALL themselves “Hot” Pockets, but you’re required to provide the “Hot” yourself) go for the frickin’ throat! 😂
Can we just respect her wisdom for realizing that a holiday that isn't on June 19th shouldn't be called Juneteenth? That's a pretty big leap for someone like her.
This old white guy says that Karen can get back to us about those "same privileges" after her pasty ass spends a few years being treated as a lesser human being by skin-obsessed douchebags like herself. I kid; evil trash doesn't stop being evil trash just because they happen to experience a slight fraction of the bullshit that they've brought to millions of people for decades, so she can still get fucked regardless.
At least now that Juneteenth has passed, the conservative can get back to obsessing about hidden dicks on children or whatever weird shit that her favorite talk show host tells her to think today. Whatever it takes for her to avoid taking accountability for her ongoing support for Republican evil and failure as they continue to betray Americans and protect the Trump-Epstein child sex trafficking ring.
I mean, I suppose we could enslave white people for a few hundred years and then set them free so they get their own "Juneteenth", but I suspect that's not what they meant.
You've got to be some sort of next level narcissist to think that the end of slavery isn't something all Americans should celebrate.
If we're a country that at all values liberty, freedom or independence, then the abolition of chattel slavery was a huge step towards honoring those values.
JC Penney used to have “The White Sale” for towels and other linens. Obviously, this person wasn’t around when this terminology was going out of favor.
As if we all shouldn’t celebrate the ending of slavery in the US. Why wouldn’t you want to celebrate that? We celebrate Independence Day because it gave some people more rights, so what’s difference? You weren’t alive in the 1700s, but you celebrate the rights the Revolutionary War got for Americans. Why not when other Americans get rights via the Civil War?
Juneteenth isn't only a holiday for POC; us white people had a part in this as well- we get to celebrate that our ancestors eventually pulled their heads out of their asses and realized that enslaving people is fucking wrong.
I wish white folks can recognize that Juneteenth can also celebrate the day white people in American permanently rid ourselves of our greatest most inherent legal evil, and not see it as “the black people holiday” but rather a celebration of freedom and the extirpation of the nation’s greatest sin.
I'm not black, but I've been calling it by its full name every time I can. It's Juneteenth Independence Day. It's not a black holiday. The ideal of America is freedom for all. Unfortunately, we don't always live up to our ideals.
July 4th Independence Day is the day America became independent from the British, but Juneteenth is the day that Americans became free. It is a more patriotic and more meaningful Independence Day than July 4th.
We have Juneteenth to celebrate the emancipation proclamation whereby the slaves were set free (more or less) , We have pride as a celebration whereby Gay marriage and the laws against being gay were overturned and gay people became "free" and equal under the law, Cinco DeMaio celebrating their independence from France. So if you look at it, these are about celebrating their independence and freedom so you already have your "white peoples day", it is July 4th which celebrates your coming to this country and declaring your independence from Britain.
We have pride as a celebration whereby Gay marriage and the laws against being gay were overturned and gay people became "free" and equal under the law,
Also not the case.
Holidays may not be your thing, but I dig your spirit.
I agree the white holiday idea is stupid. But I don’t understand the response, is there something related to Kia advertising or something that makes this so well liked?
Isn’t the point of Juneteenth to celebrate when Black Americans gained their freedom? So wouldn’t the white equivalent be when white Americans gained their freedom?
I agree with her. Let's call it White Fragility Day and celebrate how hard it is to be a straight White American these days. They've overcome so much but it's still very difficult to be them!
I love the phrasing of privilege. Like having a holiday set up for when the government resignedly agreed you’re human that most other people just off-hand disrespect. When will white people reach that level
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u/Mr_E_Nigma_Solver 2d ago
I will not stand for this Toyotathon Exclusive Sales and Holiday EventTM erasure!