Happy Juneteenth!

[Not Insane]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Surprisingly enough, at least to me, it was Texas that was the first state to make it a holiday. I wonder it the parents and politicians that rail against the imagined horrors of CRT permit the schools in their districts to teach their kids the origins of Juneteenth?

And Happy Juneteenth to you.

Probably because it was a Texas issue. That's where it was happening and that is what the proclamation ended. That's not my country. I live in Kentucky.

That's probably why virtually nobody outside of Texas ever heard of this until the last couple of years, and even darned few in Texas.

Similarly, everyone heard of the October, 1929 stock market crash, but few seem to know that the BIG crash was in 1932.

So I think "Juneteenth" is probably something worth celebrating in Texas. But not in the rest of the member nations of the US, where slavery was ended sooner.

We don't celebrate French holidays in my country either.