This new “holiday” is an embarrassment.
Are we going to use cute contractions for the real holidays too?
Thanksgiving could be “Thanksing” and we could pronounce Good Friday “Goofday”.
Independence Day could be “Julourth”.
Wouldn’t that be cute.
Juneteenth = AK Day
“Juneteenth,” is now a National Holiday so declared by SloJo. Juneteenth is a commemoration of the abolition of slavery, celebrated first in Galveston, TX, and continuously since 6/19/1865. This is probably a better candidate for National Holiday than MLK Day was. Announcing it now just seems like political posturing by the Party of Slavery, Reconstruction, KKK, Jim Crow, The Great Society, opposition to the Civil Rights Act, the BLM and on and on. A great portion of the black community has never left the plantation. Just the ownership has changed. In all this, there ought to be a National Holiday for Booker T Washington and the Tuskegee Institute, which showed the way off the plantation to those who would take it.
It’s not a National nor Federal holiday, but tons of people have been celebrating one “cutesy contraction” holiday for hundreds of years in one way or another: Halloween! :-D