I agree, what a strange way to turn a thread. Citizens of many countries can readily admit they are not taught everything they should be taught, that some things are hushed about in certain areas with other areas more aware or a collective hush even. At the same time some people do tend to use opportunities in ways they shouldn't be. IMO much like your examples we should be using this as an opportunity to grow our knowledge not ironically brush the significance of it under the rug by way of I know and I'm not even a citizen of your country.
Not if people refuse to have the holiday exploited.
And? Who cares? It's not about getting the day off. It's about recognizing the date and what happened in 1865. Period. Arguing about who gets it off, paid, not paid, double time, etc. completely misses the point.
I'll bite. Every other holiday has been commercially exploited, so how do you propose people "refuse" this one?
That isn't true and is very rude.
And those of us whose ancestors were enslaved.
My city, Richmond, Va, has had Juneteenth celebrations for as long as I’ve lived here. During the Civil War, it was the capitol of the Confederacy, so maybe that’s why. I don’t know the history of the celebrations here though.
Just my opinion. No need to be snotty.
Not being snotty. But it is true that we aren’t the ones who get to determine which date means more.
Yeah, thanks. I was just curious. FYI, the A.R. is different from the C.W. by 100 years. As for JPJ, he became the father of the US Navy. There are songs and movies about him:
The Dutch would often repair his ships and helped get him an emergency USA naval flag for his ship so he would not be arrested. All to the annoyance of the British.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapis_flag
I guess if they never bother reading news of any sort. Juneteenth has been in the news a lot in the last few years. Your PRESIDENTS have made statements regarding it several times in the last decade. Then it just become being deliberately obtuse.
I totally hear you and I think I just get tired of the mob mentality to jump on someone. I guess I didn't see it as disrespectful because she had no idea what the subject was. I do get where you're coming from though.I agree sometimes things get amplified when they didn't have to bebut I disagree on this one. It came off dismissive (even if honest curiosity was there) though I won't say I was offended. They may not have intended that (which is why I felt I needed to add that on my response to them) but none the less there was quite a consensus here (and that's saying something for this forum). I doubt the response would have gotten much other than the date if all the question was 'what date is it' but adding in 'so-called holiday' turns the conversation into something else. The disrespect seen is because of the significance behind it and changes the perception of the addition of 'so-called' into a dismissive nature.
I'm really trying to give benefit of the doubt here but I see and agree with the other side too.
With all due respect, most US businesses in this economy will try to make it so (respectfully) in order to make up profits for the last two years.
Very true for both cases.
