I had never heard of “Juneteenth” until two days ago. I doubt anyone will remember it in two years. What a joke. Just call it “Juneteemph an sheeeeit” and make it real. What a joke.
It’s been a thing in Texas for as long as I can remember
35 years ago while working for a large electronics manufacturing company in Texas, our personnel manager instructed us to mark people who didn't come to work that day as 'not present' but, not absent. He also instructed us not to use that 'not present' incident in our calculations for any disciplinary action related to attendance. It was not an official holiday of any sort but they did not want to irritate racial conditions over it.
In that same company I had an employee who wanted to change his race from Mexican to Hispanic...that same personnel manager said, "just write down(on his employee data sheet) whatever he says he is." I did.