Juneteenth (a blend of "June" and "nineteenth") commemorates June 19, 1865. On this day, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that the state's 250,000 remaining enslaved people were free.
So it's not even celebrating black people specifically, it's celebrating the end of slavery?
Seems worth celebrating to me. I certainly see why black Americans would celebrate it enough for it to be made a holiday, it's not like they're a tiny minority or that no workplaces would notice if they all took the day off.
Right, the only real reason many places aren't closed during it is the same "holiday erosion" that lots of modern American workplaces have, if it's not one of the "major" holidays, then they generally prefer to just stay open and have everyone work.
Banks and federal employees are about the only ones who get to keep most holidays, every other employer generally just says "you're on your own" if it's not Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Isn't it strange that conservatives constantly claim Lincoln was a Republican and that the Republicans ended slavery but then they get upset when we want to celebrate the end of slavery
They'd probably celebrate it if they could rename it to Lincoln's Day, and make it all about his accomplishments rather than the actual act of slavery ending itself.
Same way they're perfectly content with enioying Mt McKinley and the gulf of America now that they renamed them, lol.
Also similar to how they love Columbus day, but hate Indigenous people's day.
You can't act like they're weird in a retail situation tho, you have to keep the customer service up you know? I was a server in the south so I got real good at being real dumb lmfao
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u/ThatOneGuy308 Aug 07 '26
Lol true, just act like you have no clue what they're talking about, or even better, like they're the weird ones for knowing or caring about it.