Funding and sponsorship pulled from Juneteenth celebrations across the country

I hate what we're living through.

Do these corporations not fear the ill will they are instigating in the African American community? They could lose a LOT of customers for good.

r2 Any single thing is worth it to them to always remind our "great country" that white, straight men are THE rulers. The big orange anus has instigated all of this hateful shit.

r3, I'm not talking about the MAGA folks. I'm talking about the big corporations' board of directors.

How many of you motherfuckers are out there observing Juneteenth?

It isn’t the draw that other holidays are. Do you think corporations are dumping money into Presidents’ Day?

r5 "Do you think corporations are dumping money into Presidents’ Day? "

They sure will next year - god knows dump will make it a mandatory celebration

I want to be very honest here. Most never heard of Juneteenth before a few years ago.

r7 I heard of it growing up in the 80s. I went to a big private school that was very integrated and liberal.

I'm actually shocked that Trump hasn't abolished Juneteenth as a holiday, yet.

Wouldn't he consider this to be "DEI," which he hates so much?

Seems like a minor holiday at best

R8, okay. What part of the country did you grow up in? It may have been a regional observance that Black academics have promoted more recently. I grew up in the Northeast in areas dominated by liberal politics. I never heard of it until a few years ago, and I'm also an academic in the humanities.

Hate has found a way!

What’s hate done to YOU lately?

r11 I grew up in Connecticut.

[quote]I went to a big private school that was very integrated and liberal.

That don't impress me much.

Welcome to our world, Black people!

These decisions should be made carefully and be well thought out. Then think some more.

Juneteenth sounds ghetto

Never heard of it before 2020, and don’t really know why it is important. Grew up in NJ. I don’t mind having a day off in June however.

I was ambivalent about making this a federal holiday as a white person. I support it, but I feel like it's for black people to celebrate. It's their homegrown, heartfelt holiday, and I feel it's appropriative to turn it into a day off for everyone including the huge numbers of racist assholes in this country.

The year before that, my company had decided to quit giving the day off for Columbus Day and to substitute a different holiday. They took a poll of the employees, and we chose Juneteenth. I thought that was fair, because my company is diverse, with a nice number of African American employees at every level, including the top.

Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery, something we should all celebrate, especially at a time when white racists are so vocal and dominant. White people have every reason to celebrate it alongside black and brown people. Too many white people are intimidated to appear as anti-racist or "woke" now so it's more important than ever to practice this visibility. It's not a "black holiday" and characterizing it as such is, yes, racist. Do better.

Brilliant contribution to the thread R7. We're all so grateful for your "brave" "honesty."

Seriously, what is your point? Which you're wrong about for anyone under 40, anyone who reads or pursues new knowledge and information, and, most importantly, ANYONE BLACK. Further, anyone acquainted with Black American history outside of what is taught in overwhelmingly white schools by white educators as dictated by white (Republican) school boards and legislatures.

I'm guessing you're none of those things, though.

But thanks for that point of view. It's important to remind ourselves that people like you are still with us and still gracing us with their "knowledge."

You're way off base, r20. A holiday invented by black people to celebrate the end of slavery *in a particular place* and only when they learned about it after the cracker assholes hid the truth of their freedom from them, and you think *I* need to do better because I think turning it into a holiday for everyone including white oppressors once they noticed juneteenth and picked it up like a new toy is appropriation?

White man explain why he doesn't celebrate Black History Month and is respected by black people.

Calm down, R21. I'm not against observing it as a holiday. Juneteenth has become more widely known in the last few years among Americans. It only became more widely observed among Black Americans in the last few decades of the 20th century.

Are you familiar with Bloody Sunday? Steuben Day? Orange Day? Little Christmas? Whitsunday?

They are all days when Americans of various ethnic backgrounds might celebrate their heritage.

Try to converse with people, instead attacking them.

I’m not sure what company “donations” to Juneteenth ever did.

It’s not like there are Juneteenth parades

I don’t particularly care one way or another about Juneteenth, but it still amazes me this holiday passed the Senate unanimously and the House 415-14. In this day and age, we can’t even agree on what tap water is, and yet this managed to get through with those kind of numbers. Stunning to me.

Liberation Day

Freedom Day

End of Slavery Day

Juneteenth

One of those is a bad choice for a name for a major national holiday IMO .

[quote]and you think *I* need to do better because I think turning it into a holiday for everyone including white oppressors once they noticed juneteenth and picked it up like a new toy is appropriation?

It is a *federal holiday*. It is not "appropriation" and you sound like a stereotype of a handwringing white "liberal" when you claim that. You're twisting yourself into knots saying white people shouldn't celebrate a federal holiday because it was "invented by black people." Yes, that is racist and you really need to think a bit harder on your thought process and how you landed on such a poor take in the first place.

The majority of that country never heard of Juneteenth until a few years ago for whatever reason. A lot of people think it’s made up and recent and treat it accordingly. It just hadn’t caught on with the mainstream.

[quote] It is a *federal holiday*.

It became a federal holiday in 2021 by Biden, yet another reason people are against it.

Americans seem to believe Black History Month and MLK Day are more than enough black observance.

It was a political decision that has backfired on Democrats.

R30 don't conflate MAGAs with "people." MAGAs are a minority in this country and always have been. Most of us see right through MAGA takes like yours and R32's.

[quote]Americans seem to believe Black History Month and MLK Day are more than enough black observance.

"Oh I don't celebrate those either. Those are just for black people."

I learned about Juneteenth in middle school or high school social studies in the late 70s or early 80s. Public school in majority white NYC suburb.

Why would anyone be opposed to another summer holiday between Memorial Day and July 4? I love it!

How can anyone oppose a holiday like Juneteenth?

R28, you think the fact that it's a federal holiday makes it not appropriative? If Congress says something is fine, then it must be OK? Okay, then.

I've never heard a single black person call making Juneteenth a federal holiday "appropriative." Any links to such? Or should we just take the word of a performative white liberal keyboard warrior who steadfastly refuses to examine his own biases as he claims white people shouldn't celebrate a holiday "invented by black people?"

You think white people are going to be celebrating Juneteenth in a way that's mindful of all this?

R30 It was more than Biden. See R26 .

Nobody even heard of Juneteenth until just a few years ago.

Juneteef

Excited for the Juneteenth sales!

Why would people be against ANY holiday?

You get the fucking day off. Shut up about it!

Why isn't it called June Nineteenth? I mean, "Juneteenth" could also be the seventeenth or eighteenth.

I don't have any problem with blacks celebrating Juneteenth, especially since they miss out on Father's Day.

All Americans should celebrate Juneteenth--it's about Americans becoming free and living up to the goal of America

r45. assuming you are serious, and were'nt educaduted in the US, Juneteenth is in reference to the day slavery in the US was abolished. By the time the news got to the slaves, no one knew the exact date, ergo Juneteenth

They gon fuck around & find out, just like Target did. Black people are the most capitalistic people I know.

I grew up in Texas, where the celebration originated. I've known about it since the 70s. And R25, there are parades. But they're usually just community parades on the scale of a local 4th of July parade.