It’s not unusual, it’s just more recently reached a more widespread audience. It’s a massively important holiday celebrating a massive turning point in your country. It’s an absolute shame it took it 150 years to become more widely recognized by those other than it directly effected.
Also, just say you’re racist, bro.
TeddE@lemmy.world 3 days ago
All holidays are weird. Half are choosing to celebrate some minute facet of human life and the other half are some facet of human history (often blown up into legend)
In a world where we have holidays for a fertility god long since swallowed up by mystery cult god with the symbol of an oviparous hare, and we invite children to openly impersonate devilry each year in the autumn, or how we celebrate Columbus for their “discovery” when the continent itself was named after Amerigo Vespucci (and both events glossing over the indigenous people living here already) … and you think Juneteenth is the unusual one?
What do you find so weird about the day? (Enough to go out of your way to advertise your discontent in social media) - I’m genuinely curious.