That’s not really a good cite. A lot of people support a day off for any reason. How many people of any race do you believe actually had people over to their homes for a BBQ on June 19? Five percent? I doubt even that.
How many people had people over for a BBQ for Washington’s birthday?
That’s completely beside the point. Posters are saying that June 19 is the day because these mounds of people have been having festivals and feasts for 150 years. There are no festivals and feasts, so it really shouldn’t be June 19.
At least we finally get to see why conservatives are complaining.
I have said a few times that I support the creation of a holiday to celebrate emancipation, but not when it pushes a false narrative with the date.
Here is just one of the “no festivals or feasts.”
We could do this all night. I could pull up examples of many local festivals. It doesn’t support a national tradition of festivals that support a holiday. And even if it did, we should examine the date for any false narratives it creates, which this one certainly does.
You are changing your position. You said there were “no festivals or feasts.”
On any sort of scale, there are not. Just look at your link. This is the NAACP President. It’s a political thing, not a groundswell from the people. Hell, if I lived in that town, I would probably show up for the food.
No, it isn’t.
See the cites above. Yes, it is.
Isn’t. It’s a recognition that slaves in Texas found out after the fact. That’s all. And it isn’t a claim that they were the last slaves to find out.
LOL. Okay, if you asked John Smith on the street why June 19th was just made a federal holiday, what do you think his response would be? And you asked him, “Why June 19?”
John Smith probably doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground.
That’s my point about making it June 19 exactly.
So the holiday celebrates Juneteenth, not the certifiable date of the end of slavery, as if slavery ended on that date. Good that we can agree about that.
Not what you wrote before.
Now we need a holiday to celebrate the final end of legal slavery in America while keeping Juneteenth.
What’s the date?
Respectfully, you aren’t being fair here. You are trying to score points when it isn’t warranted.
Two towns over, they have the Blackberry Festival each year. Hundreds, probably a couple of thousand show up for food, carnival rides, cheating carnie games and so forth. If I argued that Blackberry Day should be a national holiday and you argued that “nobody” cares about blackberries, then I think it is only fair to take that argument as “no significant minority of people” care about blackberries.
My YouTube video of the festival shouldn’t be evidence.
ETA: Nobody can land that softball in the basket…grr.