You're an idiot and so is @mc_brew.
Please stop tagging me in Coli posts after the bars close and you realize your life isn't shyt.
Joe Biden Signs Bill For Juneteenth As A Federal Holiday
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Please stop tagging me in Coli posts after the bars close and you realize your life isn't shyt.
So is your outrage. You're an immigrant. Post slavery.
There are only 103 posts in HL ever mentioning juneteenth.
Leavingtheecstasy
All Star
This will never ever happen regardless of President or regime
mc_brew
#NotMyPresident
hu3ypdadon
All Star
I’m grateful Jon Biden made this a federal holiday..Trump or any of the republicans would of never gave this thought..this is the government recognizing its horrific past on slavery and taking steps to correct its self. It might not be reparations but these are the steps you need to make before that big leap..Big Win 4 Black Ppl
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
I’m an immigrant despite being born in the US. What kind of dumbass post is this? And what outrage? I have no problem with Juneteenth being a holiday. It is symbolic. A holiday is a symbolic act, you dumb fukk. Making this a holiday is not attacking racism, inequality or challenging oppression, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want this to be a holiday or am outraged over this. Nothing in my post said anything of that sort. I literally said, “I am not upset over this,” because I am not upset over this. And the black people, especially in Texas, who put in work for this day to be recognized get a lot of love from me.
You are genuinely one of the stupidest posters on here who have helped the downfall of discourse. You are the type of negro that loves symbolic gestures and pats on the head from the oppressor more than actual change.
He’s an airhead who can’t think for himself. He follows whatever the party says and does.
We got an email earlier this evening after work telling us that since tomorrow is a holiday and the federal government is observing, we are observing the holiday as well because we follow the fed schedule. But since it's on such a short notice they still want us to be 'accountable for deliverables and assignments, attend scheduled meetings, and do what is best for the organization while observing the holiday'.
So they basically want us to work
I’m in the same boat, but They old us that we will be observing the holiday next year, but this year given the short notice, we could take PTO.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
Nah, he thinks for himself. He just couches his views in, “well this is what people want.”
It’s a transparent rhetorical trick.
Corny Batman
Caped Crusader
AnonymityX1000
Veteran
I think the sentiment expressed is signalling patience is running out. Our 'allies' in power don't know Black folks are sick of waiting for actual tangible policies instead of symbolic gestures? Or they do know and don't care and are still only giving Black people symbolic gestures?
Bunchy Carter
I'll Take The Money Over The Honey
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
is pto symbolic?
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
So you guys got it right and Mrs. Lee got it wrong?
By Julia Carmel
Published June 18, 2020Updated June 18, 2021
This article was published in 2020 and was updated on June 18 to reflect President Biden’s signing of a bill that made Juneteenth a federal holiday.
When Opal Lee was growing up in Texas, she would spend Juneteenth picnicking with her family, first in Marshall, where she was born, then in Sycamore Park in Fort Worth, near the home she moved into at age 10.
She and her family lived in a predominantly white neighborhood in Fort Worth. When Mrs. Lee was 12, a mob of 500 white supremacists set fire to her home and vandalized it. The structure was destroyed, and no arrests were made.
Experiencing that hate crime pushed Mrs. Lee into a life of teaching, activism and, eventually, campaigning. In 2016, at the age of 89, she decided to walk from her home in Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., in an effort to get Juneteenth named a national holiday. She traveled two and a half miles each day to symbolize the two and a half years that Black Texans waited between when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, on Jan. 1, 1863, abolishing slavery, and the day that message arrived in Galveston, where Black people were still enslaved, on June 19, 1865.
As Mrs. Lee approached 93 last year, Fort Worth celebrated Juneteenth with multiple days of festivities, including a parade, a walk/run 5K, a breakfast of prayer, art exhibits, a gospel festival and the Miss Juneteenth Pageant.
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