Why It's Weird That White People Have The Day Off for Juneteenth

From a legal perspective, it makes sense that White people, along with Black people and other citizens, enjoy Juneteenth, a federal holiday ...

The holiday is about black people's independence from a system of slavery instituted by white people. It comes off as super strange if at least ...

It's the latest moral victory in a long history of symbolic but ultimately empty measures that do nothing to counter systemic racism. The first ...

Juneteenth isn't an excuse to believe in a post-racial society because you can buy themed napkins. That Party City has a Juneteenth section does ...

Patrick's Day parade but not at a Juneteenth festival in one that says “Free-ish since 1865.” Again, the issues of race and slavery prevent this ...

That should have happened years ago!” Look it up and judge for yourself. It was a day of liberation for the enslaved people of Texas but it was ...

It's the latest moral victory in a long history of symbolic but ultimately empty measures that do nothing to counter systemic racism. The first ...

It's just propaganda to spread white guilt and we already have a huge problem with that. Racism has literally turned backwards these days and ...

Juneteenth is on the horizon and now that it has become a day “woke” white folks know about, we're faced with commercialization by big box ...

Each year, Juneteenth is a day for Black people to celebrate freedom. This year Juneteenth carries deeper meaning in the wake of Black lives ...

For white Americans, like me, many who may never have even heard about Juneteenth before this decade, a holiday like this may come with some ...

The holiday was promoted as the work of a racial reckoning and an achievement of racial equality. Yet, in 2024, racial animus still exists as ...

... day — and ... Should white people celebrate Juneteenth? White people should celebrate this holiday in the way that centers Black Americans.

If white people truly want to celebrate Juneteenth, what better way to honor America's actual Independence Day than hearing a few uncomfortable ...

It's June 2023, and I just got wind of white people already erasing Black folks from a holiday created and recognized in honor of the ...

America was not truly free until all of its people were freed on June 19, 1865. That is AMERICA'S Independence Day, the first time they ...

You can see it. It commemorates the day federal troops arrived to enforce The Emancipation Proclamation in Texas some two years after it was ...

Since it was designated a federal holiday in 2021, Juneteenth has become more universally recognized beyond Black America. Many people get the ...

“It is seen as a holiday that is just observed by African Americans and is poorly understood outside of the African American community. It is ...

Understanding this holiday REQUIRES understanding the socio-political slights consistently thrown at Black people. This means understanding ...