If you happen to be one of the very many Americans who have never even heard of this holiday before, here's a writeup explaining it. It's a pretty obscure holiday until this year; although I've been aware of it since 1992, when I moved to Atlanta for school and encountered it there, I've gone several years at a stretch without hearing or seeing it mentioned.
Still, this year may be the year it becomes mainstream among Americans.
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It's a pretty obscure holiday until this year....
Not in my experience. It's become pretty obscure. When I was in grade school in mostly white central Iowa and upstate Illinois, we were taught about Juneteenth, and in Dinky Town, Iowa we celebrated it.
If it's obscure today, it's because the Left and their teachers unions have consciously dropped it from school teachings.
Eric Hines
It comes about from time to time when the turnout of the left's voter base is expected to be low or the incumbents have really fouled up and stand to lose one or more elections without a distraction.
My understanding was always that it was really a Texas and maybe Oklahoma thing, because of the nature of the significance of the date.
It's always been a pretty big deal in Texas. I didn't realize people in other states paid any attention. Its history is specific to local conditions here--so I was surprised that anyone in Oklahoma would try to make an issue of it, not that people who are professional whiners about such things would hesitate, once it was suggested. These things aren't required to make any sense, as long as someone can claim to be affronted, or as long as the Bad Man can be criticized under any theory whatever.
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