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06-17-2022, 12:58 PM #1
Juneteenth
How is the adoption on Juneteenth where you are?
It's become an official holiday at my company, starting two years ago. My GF's company has also started recognizing a Juneteenth holiday as of this year.
My mom's family was emancipated in Jamaica in the 1830s. There's a story in her family about an already freed slave falling in love with a slave and buying her freedom. My uncle has the legal documents and letters between the two which have been passed down through generations. Both slaves in the story were from second families, meaning they were the children of plantation owners that were married to white women, but had a second family on the side with a slave woman. The children of these second families would often be educated and could read and write but kept their slave status.
The history is pretty terrible, but I feel at least somewhat lucky to know part of my family's story.
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06-17-2022, 01:18 PM #2man of ice
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It really seems to be getting traction around here this year. Prior to this year I didn't hear that much about it but this year there's events, closings of various stuff, etc etc.
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06-17-2022, 01:24 PM #3
First year that our company is recognizing it as well. (Company is headquartered in the South, FWIW.)
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06-17-2022, 01:44 PM #4Registered User
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My workplace recognizes it. My wife's private healthcare job does not observe it yet.
We just visited family in the midwest for a wedding. To at least some of them Juneteenth is ridiculous, as is pride month. They spend a lot of time at church. Rough time of year for them.
I wasn't aware of Juneteenth until 2020.
Thanks for sharing some family history though. It wasn't that long ago really.
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06-17-2022, 01:53 PM #5
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06-17-2022, 02:24 PM #6
I remember being driven through Atlanta in the back of a cab with the SVP of my company on Juneteenth in 2008 or so. It was wild and we couldnt figure out what was going on.
Now it seems pretty recognized
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06-17-2022, 02:36 PM #7
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06-17-2022, 04:00 PM #8
I heard about it a few years ago when it popped up on my iPhone.
Grew up in Chicago with black friends and coworkers. It wasn’t a thing then.
It’s like Father’s Day. Made up shit.
I’m okay with it being a day. But another federal paid holiday? Wtf.
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06-17-2022, 04:17 PM #9Registered User
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06-17-2022, 04:25 PM #11?
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Humor me. What does Juneteenth represent? I am really not sure. And I work for a giant global corporation. Juneteenth messages every day
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06-17-2022, 04:30 PM #12
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06-17-2022, 04:36 PM #13
It’s been a state holiday in TX for over 40 years, but since you didn’t know about it I guess it didn’t matter.
What holiday isn’t “made up”? Was Jesus really born on Dec 25th? Columbus never even landed on North America. Hell, the entire Gregorian calendar is “made up”.
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06-17-2022, 04:54 PM #14Banned
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Not celebrated or even discussed in the vast Whiteness that is Colorado.
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06-17-2022, 04:56 PM #15
First time, Monday, that the NY Stock Exchange will be closed to recognize it.
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06-17-2022, 04:59 PM #16
Thank you, that was good.
Was looking at my calendar on my Android phone, according to it Sunday is indeed a holiday. Good for us and a great big yeehaw, way to hang tough Tex-ass.
Who the fuck doesn’t want another paid holiday?I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
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06-17-2022, 05:00 PM #17
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06-17-2022, 05:05 PM #18
Who the fuck do you think pays for that holiday???
My point was that it’s recent. And yes, it was a Texas thing that took off after Floyd.
But do the lazy ass federal employees need another paid holiday? Fuck no. Fuck them.
Trade Juneteenth for Presidents’ Day. Or Veterans Day. Or Labor Day. Or whatever useless federal holiday already exists.
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06-17-2022, 05:12 PM #19
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06-17-2022, 05:13 PM #20Banned
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06-17-2022, 05:13 PM #21
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06-17-2022, 05:14 PM #22
Jesus you are an intolerable asshole. Utah recognizing it as a holiday for the 1st time this year.
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06-17-2022, 05:16 PM #23
Lazy ass fed employees is coming from the guy with 16k posts here....
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06-17-2022, 05:16 PM #24
Some saturation into the Seattle area, but some of it just lip service and some typical honky resentment.
For example, Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, and Nordstrom do not include Juneteenth as a paid holiday, but recognize the day. msft encourages listening and reflecting that day. Chairman Bill always was a hard driver.
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06-17-2022, 05:22 PM #25
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