Thanks!!

What is June Teenth Freedom Day?

Is this something from Seattle?

Until a week ago I had never heard of Juneteenth. Now the media makes it sound like a holiday we have celebrated for many years. Must be white privilege at work.

I had never heard of pi day until this year.

A few years ago the old Western Auto store on the town square in Georgetown used to give out calendars at the 1st of the year with moon signs, best fishing days, etc. I appreciated that on MLK day it was listed as Robert E. Lee's birthday. It is also interesting to note that until recently all the courthouse clock towers in the south had the north-facing clock telling the incorrect time. They wouldn't give the Yankees the time of day.

Yes thanks for the banner.

June 19th is celebrated by blacks in Texas. This is just a generally accepted date that news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas. I had not heard of this being celebrated in any other state. It is frequently called Juneteenth.

To hear the media preach, this has been a well known national remembrance for years.i grew up in south GA and around here ( the population is at least 50% black), no one has ever heard of it, much less celebrated it.....

Same for me. I grew up in Utah and had never heard of it there, or here in Nevada for the last 37 years, until all of this shizz started. In fact, I have a lot of black friends and none of them have ever talked about it. Go figure.

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the population is at least 50% black), no one has ever heard of it, much less celebrated it.....

and just how many of these afore mentioned blacks do you know? In Jacksonville Florida Juneteenth is quite well know but not necessarily openly celebrated.
Perhaps jdollar living in South Georgia you have never heard of axe handle Saturday? There was a black demonstration in the streets downtown so some whites met in a barber shop and started handing out (free) axe handles. The cops came by and said "we can only give you 10 minutes and then we are going to have to break it up"! Oh wait! That's fake news, right! It's the liberal media. "But, it was only 60 years ago, there are people who are still alive who saw it and participated in the demonstration!" "Well, they are just lying!"
Peter.