Just because you were uneducated doesn’t mean the holiday is fake or made up.
No one is making you celebrate the emancipation of American slaves but it’s kinda telling on yourself that you don’t want to and the holiday makes you upset for some reason… lol
Why do you have to attack another poster?
He has his own point of view just like you do.
Man some can’t help themselves.
Are you criticizing my criticism of his criticism?? that’s weird.
lol cry more.
Why am I attacking another poster?
i know the event was real, just saying lets do all or none. juneteenth was an event long ago, but only recently became so important it takes more importance over columbus day and veterans day.
and this is a third generation veteran stating this, so yes; i would rather have veterans day of more importance. i have read enough war history that i am darn sure vets need more recognition. if we got mlk day and juneteenth, yes just as much importance and crsumstance needs to be put on for memrial AND veteran’s day.
This ain’t zero sum. The presence of MLK and Juneteenth as holidays doesn’t take way from Memorial or Veteran’s Day. There are numerous Black veterans who celebrate all 4. Again, it’s weird you think that you can’t or don’t want to celebrate MLK or Juneteenth especially when both celebrate freedom and justice and the progress our country has made towards living up to its ideals and becoming a more perfect union. Very strange indeed…
This is historically illiterate. Juneteenth has been an annual celebration since 1866. Older than the start of Memorial Day (1868) and Veteran’s/Armistice Day (1919/1954). Sooo if we’re talking about what doesn’t belong by showing up last to the party… 
What’s really ironic and hypocritical about that is all the descendants of slaves in the U.S. who are getting filthy rich endorsing companies whose products are made by enslaved Uyghurs.
i am just saying Juneteenth only recently became important enough to make it a federal holiday. i lived in houston many year and had been to galveston many times, never heard of it until it was promoted to a federal holiday.
and no, veterans day and columbus day are not equal; they do not get the same observances t state and local levels.
Official Recognition: Texas House Bill 1016, introduced by Rep. Al Edwards, passed in 1979, making it a state holiday.
Active Celebration: The first official state-sponsored holiday was observed in 1980.
Origin: The day has been celebrated in Texas since 1866, with annual celebrations honoring the arrival of Union General Gordon Granger in Galveston, who announced the end of slavery.
Evolution: While Texas recognized it for over four decades, it became a federal holiday in 2021.
This seems a lot more like a you problem. Than a everyone else problem.
People have been advocating for federal recognition of Juneteenth for more than half a century. It’s been an official state holiday in Texas since 1980. Just because you didn’t know about something and just learning about it doesn’t mean it wasn’t important beforehand. Clearly it was. Have the humility to understand you were uninformed and are now catching up to other people.
I’ve known about Juneteenth since I was kid. I’m 41.
And just because it just now became a national holiday doesn’t mean that it just now became important enough to be one.
my original point was that vets deserve equal throughout the usa. i didn’t know exactly what the vets went thru on Guadalcanal until recently either, what those guys went through is every bit as equal.
So what you’re saying is like Memorial Day everyone should get the day off for Veterans Day? I mean I’m down.
Columbus Day shouldn’t be a thing anymore. I mean it’s proven his great accomplishment was done centuries before him. And he was an absolute sh1t bird, like in an era of conquistadors and brutalizing treatment. He got put on trial for his acts of barbarism.
Which is very similar to the Nazis putting the leaders who put down the Warsaw rebellion on trial. Like how bad is it that the Spanish Crown or the Nazis were like, “Whoa dude, you’ve really crossed a line”
Sounds like something for you to spend some time and advocacy on. That way, you’ll not worry about other people being celebrated at the same time as we surely do our veterans. Maybe not enough, who knows, but we do celebrate them.
You don’t have to put someone down to lift someone else up.
Have you heard of Emancipation Park in the Third Ward?
In 1872 it was purchased by Jack Yates and several other men to give Black families a place to celebrate Juneteenth. That’s why it’s called EMANCIPATION PARK.
Juneteenth has been a part of Black culture in Houston and Galveston for a long time.
Hell, I remember hearing about the Juneteenth Blues Festivals at Miller Outdoor Theater back in the 70s and 80s as a little White kid with no connection to the holiday or blues music.
Growing up, my family never celebrated (and in fact likely wanted no part of it) but I’d like to think that today, we as a country could celebrate the liberation of a large segment of this country’s population without there being any disagreement.
Nah you’re now backtracking. You originally said to eliminate all holidays because Juneteenth was one and that you’re being forced to celebrate it (with having a day off) which you are mad about. You introduced Juneteenth into the thread to specifically say it’s unimportant and shouldn’t be a holiday. And now you’re hiding behind the service and sacrifice of veterans to obfuscate because we all clearly saw through and what you meant with your derision of Juneteenth. “Don’t make me observe your holiday” of commemorating the freedom of American Black people from slavery… speaks for itself.
Having been born and raised in Houston, I knew about Juneteenth from an early age.
I agree that we should have some sort of “Emancipation” holiday, so Juneteenth seems like a good choice. Definitely something to celebrate!
Of course, being a government employee, I like the additional day off.
As a vet and military retiree, I also dig Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day.
I can understand the beef that a lot of people have with Columbus Day, but the truth is, the holiday is a pretty big deal in the Italian American community.
At the end of the day, it was Columbus’ voyage that led to LASTING contacts between the two hemispheres. NOT any prior journeys by Norse, Phonecians, St. Brenden, Chinese under Zheng He (he voyaged to a lot of places, that is certain; a few outside the mainstream writers have claimed that he made it to the Americas) or any other non-Native American who either made it or has been theorized to have made it here earlier.
So yeah, it’s pretty significant.
i am not putting someone else down, i am saying to do none as the holidays i would want have been put down. if we have none, everyone then uses their own time, which you are advocating i do; and no one has to give up any of their holiday time as it would then be just a vacation or personal day for whatever they choose to.
not backtracking at all.
i am making the same point in two replies here so my original point still seems to get thrown to the side to take a shot or whatever is going on.
the usa has limited holidays, eliminate all of them and each of us gets to use our allotted days for whichever we want. currently we cannot observe the holidays we wish.
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