David Todd McCarty on Nostr: Juneteenth might be a Federal holiday but it’s not a national holiday. It’s like ...
Juneteenth might be a Federal holiday but it’s not a national holiday. It’s like MLK Day. The government is closed but businesses aren’t and most people have to work. We don’t treat it like a real holiday.
For starters, I don’t consider it a holiday I’m invited to. If I were Black, I’d feel the same way about Independence Day.
It would be nice if we had some sort of national holiday we could all embrace in a spirit of national unity, that didn’t invoke the military or slavery.
#Juneteenth
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