My brother’s birthday is June 19. He reached retirement age before ever hearing that “Juneteenth” was a thing.
I say it’s like Kwanzaa — pretty much made up by white people to help black people feel good about themselves.
So is June 19th “Juneteenth”?
It must be ebonics.
It wasn’t made up by white people, Nineteenth has been around since the first anniversary of Union troops marching into Galveston. It isn’t a national holiday because it has much more localized roots, based not on the end of slavery in the US but specifically the end of slavery just in Texas.
I heard it off and on through the years.
But I have cousins that are from the south.
When California’s White Populace dropped below 50%,
Governor Gray Davis held a celebration on the lawn
of the Capital Building in Sacramento.
Look at how it is today, with Whites being trashed via the
CRT, the media, and the government.
Imagine what it would be like, if the Representatives in
Congress were more than 50% traditional minorities, and
the White House were under the control of someone like
Obama.
It would take less than 12 hours after inauguration for
things to get very very very ugly.
“I say it’s like Kwanzaa — pretty much made up by white people to help black people feel good about themselves.”
I’ve known about it for 30 years. It’s been celebrated by black people in the San Francisco bay area for at least that long, and got a bit of publicity, although for the first five or ten years I’d heard of it, I did not know what it was. NOT made up by white people. A totally black thing, under the radar, unknown to most white people until last year or the year before. Also, because it was Texas based, and the migration to Texas was mainly west, it was probably unheard of in the eastern US.