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.
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.
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u/EmoYoshi05 Aug 07 '26
Actually, seriously, what IS juneteenth? I'm German! Never heard of it.