(Didn’t want to make a new thread)
I was on hold with Fidelity (UK - USA) and they mentioned something about Thursday being something like a holiday. At first I was like, “Oh, July 4th” yet then I saw that’s a Friday and had to ask.
Happy Juneteenth!
Kind of a manufactured holiday - on this date slaves in Galveston, Texas were freed on June 19th 1865 due to the Emancipation Proclamation which Abe had declared on January 1, 1863 (during the Civil War). Yet it took Congress to pass the 13th Amendment on April 8, 1864 to essentially end slavery. Texas didn’t give up their right to be their own fucking country till they were admitted to the Union on December 29. 1845.
I kinda like Texas and their quasi-independent attitude. “T for Texas” by Lynyrd Skynyrd is a great song.
Yet floating holidays in June are okay by me. As long as Felon 47 doesn’t rename it “Shithole Countries of the World Celebration Day”
ETA: It took some force, from wiki:
On the morning of June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived on the island of Galveston to take command of the more than 2,000 federal troops recently landed in the department of Texas to enforce the emancipation of its enslaved population and oversee Reconstruction, nullifying all laws passed within Texas during the war by Confederate lawmakers. The order informed all Texans that, in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all enslaved people were free.
So, at the same time, fuck Texas.