Happy Juneteenth Oppo!

"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem) 06/19/2020 at 07:49 • Filed to: None

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My company is giving us all the afternoon off so that’s something I guess.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > CalzoneGolem 06/19/2020 at 08:10

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That’s cool. My company is doing *checks notes* jack shit. To be fair though, I only learned about Juneteenth within the last few years.

CalzoneGolem > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 06/19/2020 at 08:14

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Yeah I’ve only learned about it from my time here in the the Gawker-verse interestingly enough. It’s weird to me that we’d have a half day but I’m glad to have it and more so the legitimization of this day.

Cash Rewards > CalzoneGolem 06/19/2020 at 08:26

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I just looked it up s few days ago, and had the following depressing conversation with myself:

Me: how the fuck is this not a holiday?

*Thinks about it

Me: oh, yeah (sad trombone)

facw > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 06/19/2020 at 08:35

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I only learned about it when I was in Texas. My company didn’t do anything special though.

Future next gen S2000 owner > CalzoneGolem 06/19/2020 at 08:42

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Serious question, why is it called Junetenth and not the actual date?

AkursedX > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 06/19/2020 at 08:49

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I grew up in the inner city in an African American neighborhood. I knew Juneteenth was a festival, but didn’t know it was about the end of slavery til I was about 13.

I then went to a Catholic highschool out in the suburbs where there wasnt a single minority in the whole school and remember mentioning Juneteenth a couple of times only to be met with confused stares. But many of the people I went to school with there were terrified of the ‘inner city’ and exhibited the type of overt racism that many people will express when they think they are surrounded by ‘their own kind’.

But anyways, I always liked going to Juneteenth because they’re was always good food at the festival and am thankful of the rather unique upbringing I had to be able to experience such things.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > Future next gen S2000 owner 06/19/2020 at 08:50

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth?wprov=sfti1

jminer > CalzoneGolem 06/19/2020 at 09:54

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Happy juneteenth !

shop-teacher > AkursedX 06/19/2020 at 10:33

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I just learned that right now, from you. I’ll be 39 Monday . First I heard of it was two days ago, when I got an email from my bank saying they were closing early today for it. I made a mental note to look up what the deuce Juneteenth was. As typical for my mental notes, I promptly forgot about it.

That was a gap in my knowledge big enough to drive a truck through.

QCGoose > shop-teacher 06/19/2020 at 10:45

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35 here; first I’ve ever he ard about it.