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Offline Lookin4_67GalaxieConv

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Juneteenth
« on: June 19, 2020, 08:03:36 AM »
Well, since this is the new favorite holiday of the left, I'm curious to know when others first heard of it.  I'm fifty and never heard of it until the last year or two.
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Offline goodfellow

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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2020, 08:12:01 AM »
News to me as well. Our governor just declared it a state holiday. Pretty soon every special interest will have their own "state holiday", and we won't have time to go to work anymore.
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Offline highland512

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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2020, 08:14:41 AM »
When I lived in the NOLA area you would hear mention of it but that was it.
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Offline muddy

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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2020, 09:08:07 AM »
I'm googling it right now

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Offline slip knot

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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2020, 11:18:14 AM »
Been in Texas for as long as I can remember
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Offline bonneyman

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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2020, 11:25:41 AM »
I never heard of it until last week when Trump announced his rally was going to be on that day and all the BLM crowd went ballistic.
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Offline DeadNutz

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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2020, 11:42:29 AM »
I had heard of it before but didn't know much about it.
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Offline ron350

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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2020, 03:40:32 PM »
By this time next year Juneteenth will be a national holiday like MLK day.
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Offline Lookin4_67GalaxieConv

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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2020, 10:51:52 PM »
Quote from: ron350 on June 19, 2020, 03:40:32 PM
By this time next year Juneteenth will be a national holiday like MLK day.

It's gonna take an act of Congress.  Depends who's in power.
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Offline fatfillup

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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2020, 08:53:56 PM »
Had not heard of it either but did learn it had been a regional holiday in Texas for a long time.

Kind of like Patriots day in Massachusetts
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Offline Heiny57

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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #10 on: June 21, 2020, 06:22:18 AM »
Never heard of it.
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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #11 on: June 21, 2020, 07:06:02 AM »
I celebrate July 4, ignore the other .. That is the problem with the country nobody is an American

 Miami is cuba, Cal is mexico & Atlanta city africa  :34:

And everyone make excuses for the devision.............Oh well not going to bother me... They cross my property line I'll deal with it then.
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Offline slip knot

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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #12 on: June 21, 2020, 10:35:22 AM »
Friday at lunch I was visiting with a guy who's family used to run one of the bigger feed mills in our area. starting in the late 40s or early 50s they would have a big party for their crew on Juneteenth. They had 40-50 black guys working there and they would have a big barbeque, butcher 4-5 hogs several dozen chickens and everyones family would show up. He said they would have several 100 folks. big time was had by all, whites and blacks.  Somewhere in the early 60s the local preachers from the black churches asked them to stop the party because it was taking people away from their Juneteenth celebrations.

Today they're lucky to get several dozen to show up for a Juneteenth march.
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Offline walrus

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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #13 on: June 21, 2020, 03:32:44 PM »
Quote from: fatfillup on June 20, 2020, 08:53:56 PM

Kind of like Patriots day in Massachusetts

And Maine  :)  Never heard of it either
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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #14 on: June 21, 2020, 05:08:46 PM »
Been known in Texas for a long time since it actually is based on the news getting to folks here.

When I was college in Beaumont , Texas,  it was celebrated by blacks, but that was 64 and 65 , so there was still a lot of racial tension around.
I even participated in a peaceful "sit-in" at a local diner that wouldn't serve Blacks. We did succeed in getting them served.
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Re: Juneteenth
« Reply #15 on: June 21, 2020, 11:37:37 PM »
I think it's cool that it's a holiday in Texas.  But ridiculous to try and make it a national holiday, especially when most people outside of Texas have barely heard of it.  National racial grievance warlords want to use it to further their power and keep up this narrative that blacks are barely out of slavery's chains.
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