Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why white people get off work?
Do you know why people with no connection to the military get Memorial Day off…or Veteran’s Day?
Memorial Day is to mourn & remember our military members who died serving our country.
Enslaved people built our country.
Not all of it. Asians built the entire west. There were no slaves ever in California. Asians were the ones who were blasting through granite in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
That was the Irish
Anonymous wrote:Is it a holiday for your company or not? If so, that's on you if you decide to work, just like if you were working on Memorial Day or MLK Day or whatever. If it's NOT a holiday, then you work or take PTO. This is not complicated.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Listen up, David Duke. This is a real holiday, an indispensable part of the American tradition.
Anyone out there claiming this is just a transparent grab by the DEI professionals to win themselves another day of freeloading that corporate America (white people) can’t object to is probably a structural racist of the worst sort.
I’m baking a traditional Juneteenth Pie, as did my mother and grandmother before me. It’s a recipe and tradition passed down to us from our forebears.
What flavor pie?
Anonymous wrote:I am a fed in an agency that does care about Juneteenth so yes I took it off. I went to a commemoration event in my town and a museum.
Anonymous wrote:Listen up, David Duke. This is a real holiday, an indispensable part of the American tradition.
Anyone out there claiming this is just a transparent grab by the DEI professionals to win themselves another day of freeloading that corporate America (white people) can’t object to is probably a structural racist of the worst sort.
I’m baking a traditional Juneteenth Pie, as did my mother and grandmother before me. It’s a recipe and tradition passed down to us from our forebears.
Anonymous wrote:We get Juneteenth off and our organization's leadership sends out messages about how important the day is to commemorate the end of slavery, how much still has to be done to advance equal rights, etc.
And then most people end up working at least half a day from home.
So is this really a holiday or not? Are we dishonoring the holiday by treating it as just another work day? I'm certainly not sitting back and reflecting on racial injustice when I've got a full email box from people pinging me on projects and upcoming deliverables.
Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why white people get off work?
Anonymous wrote:the real logistical problem is that its in the middle of the week. every other federal holiday is tied to a weekend. if it were the 3rd Monday in June, people would take a long weekend. A random Wednesday - I have stuff I have to get done.