If you’re suggesting cancelling Juneteenth because it “overlaps” (“” because I don’t really agree with that) MLK day, wouldn’t you cancel MLK day instead? Emancipation was a little more a step forward than the civil rights movement…
Of course, if you consult the experts on cancelling shit, they’d most likely say that Columbus day might be a better fit in the chopping block, and IF we need to “make room on the calendar” (also bullshit) in order to make voting a legit day off (is it not? If someone who works for me asks for time off to vote, I’m going to ask them if they need a fucking ride to the polls… Come on people…), I kinda gotta go with Columbus being the least relevant current federal holiday…
Just my opinion, mind, but cancelling the new shit because “muh traditions” is fucking dumb… Be better…
Technically Columbus Day is now Indigenous People’s Day since Biden changed it in 2021, so something much more worth celebrating IMO
How useful is Veterans Day or Labor Day? They’re all useless. We don’t have them for their usefulness.
I’m all for adding more holidays. A voting holiday is an easy win. No need to replace or remove holidays.
I would love for someone to interview racists who gets Juneteenth off for work. I’d be interested to know how committed some people would be being racist.
Every holiday is useless. Even Christmas. You need a holiday to gather with family and exchange gifts?
Hypocrisy: the most Republicanist thing ever.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Cancel Juneteenth or one of the other useless ones we made up,” Ramaswamy told an applauding crowd gathered at a welding company here.
Asked by NBC News to clarify whether he thought Juneteenth was a “useless” holiday, Ramaswamy said, “I basically do.”
“We don’t just look back and flog ourselves,” Ramaswamy said in the video June 19, which was posted to his account on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter.
As the National Museum of African American History and Culture notes, Juneteenth celebrates the anniversary of when Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and announced a quarter-million Black people had been freed by executive decree.
One of his competitors, former Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, who is biracial, criticized Ramaswamy for saying he “hopes to cancel a holiday that celebrates equality and freedom.”
On Juneteenth two months ago, the NAACP issued a statement saying, “Today we celebrate our emancipation while also acknowledging that we are still fighting for true freedom.”
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