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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Juneteenth should be celebrated.  We ended legal slavery decades (nearly a century in some cases) before some other countries and we are entitled to be proud of it, the founding documents that made it nigh inevitable and of the day when the news was finally heard by everyone.

It deserves all the fireworks, parades, parties and poetry we can muster.  [/quote]

I agree with all this, but I also think it should have been made a holiday before the 11th hour. There have been so many second order effects from shutting down the government with hours’ notice. My contractor husband now isn’t authorized to work on his federal project today, which means he can’t wrap up something he wanted to get done before starting on new stuff next week. He’s now stressed about squeezing extra work into next week. Our daycare that follows the federal calendar decided to close in an 8 pm email last night that left us scrambling for backup care today. DC schools closed and kids’ end of year party celebrations have been canceled (which is pretty crappy after the year these young kids in particular have been through). I’m sure there are other things that have been messed up because for whatever reason our government couldn’t get its act together to declare this a holiday like a month (or even 2 weeks!) who so people had a heads up to plan. I am a dem, but this feels like a last minute decision made by out of touch people who don’t think through how shutting things down affects the little people at their whim. But hey, I’m sure the politicians will get their photo op just in time for Juneteenth to show how much they care.

As another poster mentioned, A+ for the actual act of making this a holiday, but zero points for this eleventh hour execution. [/quote]

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