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Your kids are going to think Juneteenth is a normal holiday

On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed the King...
snowy frozen electric furnace site
  05/30/23
Think about this for a moment.
Flirting orchestra pit party of the first part
  05/30/23
I didn't realize that MLK day was only created in 1983. It s...
wonderful light headpube
  05/30/23
MLK is a holiday only because of the superbowl in Arizona. ...
snowy frozen electric furnace site
  05/30/23
this is what I find bizarre. We have all these "holiday...
Boyish trailer park rigor
  05/30/23
The companies that are on the cutting edge of compensation a...
wonderful light headpube
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a lot of things were closed yesterday. Here is my rank based...
snowy frozen electric furnace site
  05/30/23
4th of July counts too good catch.
Boyish trailer park rigor
  05/30/23
MLK wasn’t even liked that much publicly when he died....
Crystalline Antidepressant Drug
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no they aren't because they aren't in school on June 19th. i...
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the school year ends before father's day every year so kids ...
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What do you think the end game is here? I bet by the time ou...
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I would like to nominate Vaisakhi day as a national federal ...
wonderful light headpube
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lol brother. no one gives a shit about indians or asians. th...
snowy frozen electric furnace site
  05/30/23
I care about our gorgeous brethren from across the sea, brot...
wonderful light headpube
  05/30/23
No they won't lol no one does
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It is, but so is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederat...
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a day celebrating emancipation is 180. it's even more import...
offensive temple doctorate
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It's an explicitly black thing down to the lazily pronounced...
Amber Indecent State Indirect Expression
  05/30/23
Aren't most kids out of school by then? And there aren't any...
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  05/30/23
So what? Americans would probably be 20% less mentally ill w...
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  05/30/23
Lincolns birthday used to be the 'black' holiday. It was co...
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  05/30/23
I have a paid day-off from work. I'll take it!
at-the-ready razzmatazz skinny woman den
  05/30/23
Unless you raise them to be explicitly racist.
Know-it-all chestnut depressive
  05/30/23
Wow
hyperventilating beady-eyed whorehouse idiot
  05/30/23
What about your kids?
Massive laughsome legend
  05/30/23
personal view here is this is good and Juneteenth is even a ...
Aromatic drunken roommate institution
  05/30/23
blacks stole columbus day from us and now they are encroachi...
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  05/30/23
Thanks for the official Evangelical Christian (TM) take, pot...
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yw
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Hope the test tube is doing well, brother in Christ
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lol
stirring sable cruise ship french chef
  05/30/23
Lol no, it reinforces pride month
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  05/30/23
It’s a flame holiday for kids since most are out of sc...
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no one understands or cares about the significance of any ho...
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  05/30/23
it literally is
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I can think of bigger things to complain about
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New religions require new holidays.
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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:20 AM
Author: snowy frozen electric furnace site

On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law, designating the third Monday in January a federal holiday in observance of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370543)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:23 AM
Author: Flirting orchestra pit party of the first part

Think about this for a moment.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370556)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:31 AM
Author: wonderful light headpube

I didn't realize that MLK day was only created in 1983. It seems like it was always there. Really makes you think.

Then again, it wouldn't have been a holiday during his lifetime, and he was shot and killed in 1968. So it took 15 years to become a national holiday.

Juneteenth took the same amount of time (completely forgotten as a concept for 130+ years, remembered in the late 1990s, resurrected by some activist).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370611)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:34 AM
Author: snowy frozen electric furnace site

MLK is a holiday only because of the superbowl in Arizona.

On March 19, 1991, NFL owners voted to remove the 1993 Super Bowl from Phoenix after Arizona voters failed to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.

This is why columbus day is now a fake holiday where banks are closed but you still have to work.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370625)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:38 AM
Author: Boyish trailer park rigor

this is what I find bizarre. We have all these "holidays" where almost everything remains open. Columbus Day, MLK Day, Memorial Day/Labor Day (to an extent). Just the government schools and banks close.

The only true holidays are Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Years. That probably would include Easter although it's a Sunday anyway.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370644)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:46 AM
Author: wonderful light headpube

The companies that are on the cutting edge of compensation and time off policies are offering BOTH Juneteenth and a floating day in the month of June for an individual's personal observance of Pride.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370661)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:48 AM
Author: snowy frozen electric furnace site

a lot of things were closed yesterday. Here is my rank based on our amazing capitalist society

Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Years

Labor/Memorial/4th July

MLK

Veterans/Presidents/Columbus/Juneteenth/Good Friday



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370669)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 11:09 AM
Author: Boyish trailer park rigor

4th of July counts too good catch.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370731)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:46 AM
Author: Crystalline Antidepressant Drug

MLK wasn’t even liked that much publicly when he died. A huge reimagining of his image occurred after the fact

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370664)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:32 AM
Author: Boyish trailer park rigor

no they aren't because they aren't in school on June 19th. it doesn't even register.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370620)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:34 AM
Author: irradiated sooty therapy



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:37 AM
Author: snowy frozen electric furnace site

the school year ends before father's day every year so kids don't have to explain why they dont have anyone to make a card for. think about it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370640)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 7:15 PM
Author: carnelian fiercely-loyal corner sandwich



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Date: May 30th, 2023 1:45 PM
Author: Flushed Heady Theatre Dingle Berry

titcr

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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:33 AM
Author: wonderful light headpube

What do you think the end game is here? I bet by the time our kids graduate from high school, we'll have added 1-3 more federal holidays.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370622)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:34 AM
Author: wonderful light headpube

I would like to nominate Vaisakhi day as a national federal holiday. We need more days to honor our Sikh brothers and sisters.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370627)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:38 AM
Author: snowy frozen electric furnace site

lol brother. no one gives a shit about indians or asians. the next few imaginary holidays will be peanut butter day and a Marvel Wakanda day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370642)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:44 AM
Author: wonderful light headpube

I care about our gorgeous brethren from across the sea, brother. I think we should do more to celebrate them. Remember, Indians are like 31% of my local high school. They are a very significant group over here. Almost bigger than whites.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370658)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:47 AM
Author: fighting mad cow disease

No they won't lol no one does

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370668)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:51 AM
Author: apoplectic sienna kitchen karate

It is, but so is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Memorial_Day



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370682)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:51 AM
Author: offensive temple doctorate

a day celebrating emancipation is 180. it's even more important than MLK Day. why not Juneteenth?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370683)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 1:10 PM
Author: Amber Indecent State Indirect Expression

It's an explicitly black thing down to the lazily pronounced name, and it was only made a holiday because they needed an excuse to attack a Trump rally

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46371268)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:52 AM
Author: White curious plaza digit ratio

Aren't most kids out of school by then? And there aren't any huge events like parades and fireworks built around it so it won't be another July 4th. I don't think it'll catch on.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370686)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:54 AM
Author: Naked carmine box office

So what? Americans would probably be 20% less mentally ill with 10-15 more paid holidays each year, a la Eurotrash.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370693)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:55 AM
Author: maroon menage athletic conference

Lincolns birthday used to be the 'black' holiday. It was combined with Washington's birthday for presidents day and then blacks got mlk. In the movie Holiday Inn they do an entire blackface routine for Lincolns birthday. It was actually them trying to be progressive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370694)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 10:56 AM
Author: at-the-ready razzmatazz skinny woman den

I have a paid day-off from work. I'll take it!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370699)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 11:07 AM
Author: Know-it-all chestnut depressive

Unless you raise them to be explicitly racist.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370727)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 11:13 AM
Author: hyperventilating beady-eyed whorehouse idiot

Wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370758)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 11:14 AM
Author: Massive laughsome legend

What about your kids?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370765)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 11:15 AM
Author: Aromatic drunken roommate institution

personal view here is this is good and Juneteenth is even a little bit anti-progressive/anti-1619 project type revisionist history

plus it distracts from the national homage to Satan called “pride month”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370771)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 11:19 AM
Author: snowy frozen electric furnace site

blacks stole columbus day from us and now they are encroaching on pride. no one can stop them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46370790)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 1:17 PM
Author: Massive laughsome legend

Thanks for the official Evangelical Christian (TM) take, potkike

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46371292)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 1:40 PM
Author: Aromatic drunken roommate institution

yw

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Date: May 30th, 2023 1:51 PM
Author: Massive laughsome legend

Hope the test tube is doing well, brother in Christ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46371398)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 1:53 PM
Author: stirring sable cruise ship french chef

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46371405)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 3:06 PM
Author: Amber Indecent State Indirect Expression

Lol no, it reinforces pride month

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46371761)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 1:03 PM
Author: Bearded histrionic newt

It’s a flame holiday for kids since most are out of school for summer anyway (lol at the northeast districts being fd over by going to the end of June).

That being said next next year will be first year Juneteenth will not be on a fri/sat/sun/mon. Are people going to be excited about a random Wednesday off? Interestingly when Juneteenth is on a Wednesday July 4 is on a Thursday.

Anyway, I think they should fix as third Monday of June if they want some synergy with fathers day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46371244)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 1:43 PM
Author: Zombie-like zippy rigpig

no one understands or cares about the significance of any holiday

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46371374)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 1:53 PM
Author: stirring sable cruise ship french chef

it literally is

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46371402)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 1:53 PM
Author: galvanic circlehead

There's still plenty of time to rename it or make it about something else. As it stands no one really know what it's about. We can also add another federal holiday in the summer that outclasses it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46371404)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 7:02 PM
Author: snowy frozen electric furnace site



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Date: May 30th, 2023 7:13 PM
Author: Crystalline Antidepressant Drug

I can think of bigger things to complain about

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46372727)



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Date: May 30th, 2023 7:18 PM
Author: twinkling federal dog poop range

New religions require new holidays.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5347889&forum_id=2],#46372746)



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Date: June 14th, 2025 1:36 PM
Author: snowy frozen electric furnace site



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