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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not like it’s an important holiday. It’s a new one and hardly anyone celebrates it[/quote]

Tell me you are white and uneducated without telling me you are white and uneducated.

It's a very old holiday and lots of people celebrate it. What's new is that it is now a federal holiday.[/quote]

DP here. My issue with Juneteenth is it has little relevance at the national level. [b]It celebrates the end of slavery in Texas[/b], when Major General Granger signed an order freeing slaves in Texas specifically.

I'm all for a national holiday to celebrate the end of slavery, but then let's choose a date with national not Texas-only significance. How about September 22, the day Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation?[/quote]

No, it celebrates the *end* of *slavery* -- we're not free until we're all free.[/quote]

Then is should be December 6. That is when the 13th Amendment was ratified, ending slavery in the US. That took place a few months after Granger signed the order in Texas.[/quote]

I would much rather have a vacation in mid-June than September or December. there are a million reasons you can justify a particular date. but for me, it is most important that I can spend it in the pool.[/quote]

I think this is one reason why they picked Juneteenth rather than some other date.  It is much more useful to people during the summer months.  Once feds started getting that day off I scheduled my summer vacations that week so I didn't have to use as much time off.  [/quote]

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