Juneteenth seems like a really nice idea for a national civic holiday actually Seems like this idea is gaining a kind of momentum? Kind of surprised it hasnt been implemented already tbh
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MLK represents triumph over adversity. Juneteenth doesn’t.
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This is a guess.
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State Rep Al Edwards in 1979 got Juneteenth recognizes as a state holiday, setting it on June 19th, his mother’s birthday. It was as good a guess as any for the exact date that the legally enforceable* end of slavery was announced for Texas. *by Union Troops
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The Texas nature of it made it an incomplete fit for national celebration, with the equivalent date falling somewhere else for other states (and much earlier in, say, Massachusetts).
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MLK is safe for nice white liberals to virtue signal about, while Juneteenth actually helped blaq ppl
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Juneteenth can’t be a Monday every year?
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I mean we get by with the other ones!
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