Anonymous wrote:My law firm had already declared it a firm holiday so I knew I was getting Friday off. I'm personally always down for another day off from work, and if this helps POC feel better, then I'm all for that. They've been through hell.

I’m impressed you became a lawyer with your logic and reasoning skills.

Anonymous wrote:My law firm had already declared it a firm holiday so I knew I was getting Friday off. I'm personally always down for another day off from work, and if this helps POC feel better, then I'm all for that. They've been through hell.

"If it helps POC feel better" ?!?!?!?! Seriously...

Anonymous wrote:I like it. Good thing to celebrate. But too close to Memorial Day. We need a holiday in April.

That stretch from late Feb-Memorial Day is brutal!

Anonymous wrote:I would like it better if it wasn’t called Juneteenth. June 19th sounds good. Can we just combine it with MLK day? We are heading toward a lot of holidays. Besides the usual days, our school system takes off Christian, Jewish and Muslim holidays. I think we should cut Presidents’ Day or Columbia Day or Easter Monday.

Did you actually just ask if we could combine MLK Day and Juneteenth? How about first we combine Memorial Day and Veterans Day?

Anonymous wrote:I would like it better if it wasn’t called Juneteenth. June 19th sounds good. Can we just combine it with MLK day? We are heading toward a lot of holidays. Besides the usual days, our school system takes off Christian, Jewish and Muslim holidays. I think we should cut Presidents’ Day or Columbia Day or Easter Monday.

Columbus.

I think this is a critical holiday. As a white person, I think to myself, shouldn't we as Americans want to celebrate the day we stopped enslaving people?? This is a big deal! It's not just for Black people!

Who were the 14 House members who voted against it?

I would like it better if it wasn’t called Juneteenth. June 19th sounds good. Can we just combine it with MLK day? We are heading toward a lot of holidays. Besides the usual days, our school system takes off Christian, Jewish and Muslim holidays. I think we should cut Presidents’ Day or Columbia Day or Easter Monday.

What is Juneteenth?

Good idea.

The best part is how it will make Republican elites and donors cry. Tucker Carlson will whine about it ineffectually for a month. I might even watch that with popcorn.

Did you see Johnson crying about it this week before his hand was forced and he had to give in once the rest of the GOP realized killing this bill would reveal the racism at the heart of the GOP?

I’m so in favor of this; Black people really deserve this holiday and I support it. And the pain it causes the GOP is just an extra bonus.

My law firm had already declared it a firm holiday so I knew I was getting Friday off. I'm personally always down for another day off from work, and if this helps POC feel better, then I'm all for that. They've been through hell.

It’s about time. Now do April 23, Barbara Johns Day.

I like it. Good thing to celebrate. But too close to Memorial Day. We need a holiday in April.

My thought is that Juneteenth is about to become a federal holiday.

Do you have any thoughts about other federal holidays?

What are your thoughts?