I feel you friend, I grew up with the public education in a red area and I didn’t know it was a thing until it was a made a federal holiday (at which point I did research to learn more about it)
I’d say the most common thing I’ve learned since my schoolyard days (20 years ago) is that my school failed me and many other kids. (I’ll never forget when our history teacher was portraying ‘Manifest Destiny’ as a GOOD thing, I got sent to the office because I pushed back on that)
Yeah it’s wild it seemed like it came out of nowhere one year, but it was a very big holiday in other parts. Frankly a day off in June is always nice. :)
It’s been a thing longer than you’ve been alive. It just hadn’t spread to most white people. It’s only recently become a thing that everyone is aware of.
Texas is where the very last slaves were freed, Galveston to be specific. That said, it’s been celebrated in black communities (on and off because racism) outside of Texas for over a century
I read about it. It seemed interesting. I think we have gotten used to the world of 24 hour news and quick responses that the scale of the USA seems small now, even Texas. I didn’t know it was celebrated on and off. I didn’t know about it until 2022.
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I remember when Juneteeth became a thing. I thought it was a typo. So I fixed all the calendar at work to have “June Nineteenth.”
I feel you friend, I grew up with the public education in a red area and I didn’t know it was a thing until it was a made a federal holiday (at which point I did research to learn more about it)
I’d say the most common thing I’ve learned since my schoolyard days (20 years ago) is that my school failed me and many other kids. (I’ll never forget when our history teacher was portraying ‘Manifest Destiny’ as a GOOD thing, I got sent to the office because I pushed back on that)
Yeah it’s wild it seemed like it came out of nowhere one year, but it was a very big holiday in other parts. Frankly a day off in June is always nice. :)
It’s been a thing longer than you’ve been alive. It just hadn’t spread to most white people. It’s only recently become a thing that everyone is aware of.
I did research afterwards. It seems to be something from Texas IIRC. I’m nowhere near Texas.
Texas is where the very last slaves were freed, Galveston to be specific. That said, it’s been celebrated in black communities (on and off because racism) outside of Texas for over a century
I read about it. It seemed interesting. I think we have gotten used to the world of 24 hour news and quick responses that the scale of the USA seems small now, even Texas. I didn’t know it was celebrated on and off. I didn’t know about it until 2022.