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  • White models used to promote SC Juneteenth holiday blasted as ‘gentrifying Juneteenth’

    05/26/2023 11:18:52 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 66 replies
    NY Post ^ | 05/26/2023 | Lee Brown
    How could this be all white? Organizers of a South Carolina town’s Juneteenth events have issued a groveling apology for advertising the holiday marking the emancipation of black slaves with a banner showing only a white couple. The seemingly colorblind promos for Juneteenth GVL’s June “mega fest” went viral soon after they were put up across Greenville — sparking outrage and even calls for a boycott. “You want to celebrate the depth of black culture on Juneteenth by putting white [people] as the face of it?” one outraged critic tweeted the organizers. “How were you not aware how problematic that...