• NateNate60@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    4 months ago

    Imagine being salty about losing a war that you didn’t fight, your fathers didn’t fight, nor your father’s father, nor your father’s father’s father.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      241·
      4 months ago

      It’s been a thing longer than you’ve been alive. It just hadn’t spread to most white people. It’s only recently become a thing that everyone is aware of.

        • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          4 months ago

          Texas is where the very last slaves were freed, Galveston to be specific. That said, it’s been celebrated in black communities (on and off because racism) outside of Texas for over a century

    • Gormadt@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      20·
      4 months ago

      I feel you friend, I grew up with the public education in a red area and I didn’t know it was a thing until it was a made a federal holiday (at which point I did research to learn more about it)

      I’d say the most common thing I’ve learned since my schoolyard days (20 years ago) is that my school failed me and many other kids. (I’ll never forget when our history teacher was portraying ‘Manifest Destiny’ as a GOOD thing, I got sent to the office because I pushed back on that)

        • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
          12·
          4 months ago

          alright. my apologies for taking such an ungracious stance. it was just hard for me to fathom:

          • someone not having any neighbors growing up with Juneteenth Jubilee cookouts
          • not hearing about the decades long petition to the federal government starting in the nineteen sixties to recognize Juneteenth as a holiday
          • not seeing any of the Juneteenth media coverage in 2021 when there was a full on blitz to introduce people to their newest holiday celebration
          • seeing a calendar event on June Nineteeth named “Juneteenth” and immediately assuming it was a typo for an intentional calendar event named “June Nineteenth” and then correcting it

          all the people i’ve met who don’t think Juneteenth should be a holiday come in one of two flavors:

          1. (the more common one) think Black history is irrelevant and that the holiday is a modern recent construct
          2. (the more radical one) think Juneteenth should be a holiday that is only implemented by the people it represents once they are adequately represented in whatever system of government replaces the one that refuses to pay reparations

          i defaulted from past experience into assuming you fit into category 1, and for that i apologize. lord knows i’ve experienced things reaching my knowledge base later than others because information that truly matters spreads slow, and the internet has not been the accelerant to information spread we often delude ourselves into thinking it is.

          i grew up being told, by Asian people, that “Asian” is a slur to them, and that it unfairly lumps them all into a single category. the term they asked me to use instead is considered by most Asians today to be outdated, and a slur.

          again. i take ownership of that i jumped too fast to being unkind, and that this was ultimately unconstructive. i will work harder to do better in the future

                • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  4 months ago

                  I grew up in Central Maryland (in the county) and one of my best friends was half black. The high was also 70% black. It wasn’t a thing in the late eighties in that area.

                  I never heard of it till it became a federal holiday.