Juneteenth
Juneteenth
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literally me. The one time in like 6 months that I wanted to print something
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My stepmom LOVES to complain about Juneteenth being a school holiday. She’s otherwise a good person. I wish she didn’t watch Faux News so much.
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You gotta be super racist to oppose a paid day off in the nicest month of the year
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That’s the puzzle. She isn’t comparably racist in other ways.
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The cafe where I planned to get a to-go breakfast when I needed to be at work on time for my weekly morning of responsibilities was closed for Juneteenth and I was late as a result.
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Somehow I read schedule a day as in they scheduled an appointment. Which wouldn’t make sense if the library was closed. So it means they scheduled their own shit in their own calendar. Which is pretty impressive given all these other problems OP claims to have.
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What the fuck is Juneteenth?
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Needs to buckle down on course contents.
One day in June.
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Idk about OP, but summer classes at my uni are super compressed. So like, everything in 8 weeks and most of the campus is restricted hours in the first place since (well most of the students aren't doing summer courses)
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Oh I was thinking about regular terms but you are right, in June it might be a summer course
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Dafuq is a juneteenth?
Celebrated as the end of slavery in the US. Obviously excludes the clause of the 13th Amendment that served as a loophole, but emancipation holidays aren't always so cut-and-dry.
Before the 13th amendment, Lincoln formally ended slavery in the Union with the Emancipation Proclamation.
But even before that, from 1861, the Union Army made it a policy to seize slaves that it captured as contraband (or prize) of war, and then effectively emancipate then.
In general, even after the emancipation proclamation, slaves did not get actual freedom until the Union forces reached them.
So it was a complicated and messy process.
Ir's weird how I've never heard about this, seeing how prevalentie American culture is in popular media.