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alright. my apologies for taking such an ungracious stance. it was just hard for me to fathom:
all the people i've met who don't think Juneteenth should be a holiday come in one of two flavors:
i defaulted from past experience into assuming you fit into category 1, and for that i apologize. lord knows i've experienced things reaching my knowledge base later than others because information that truly matters spreads slow, and the internet has not been the accelerant to information spread we often delude ourselves into thinking it is.
i grew up being told, by Asian people, that "Asian" is a slur to them, and that it unfairly lumps them all into a single category. the term they asked me to use instead is considered by most Asians today to be outdated, and a slur.
again. i take ownership of that i jumped too fast to being unkind, and that this was ultimately unconstructive. i will work harder to do better in the future
You are good. I appreciate that. I came from not knowing about it at all. I didn't know it was such a big thing. This comment made up for it. I don't watch the news, I don't even own a TV, saying I live under a rock would be an understatement at times. Can I ask, are you from the Texas area?
Not at all. I'm from Central Appalachia in Virginia.
I'm genuinely a little surprised. I'm not that far from Virginia either. I really wonder why I hadn't heard anything about Juneteenth prior to recently then.
I grew up in Central Maryland (in the county) and one of my best friends was half black. The high was also 70% black. It wasn't a thing in the late eighties in that area.
I never heard of it till it became a federal holiday.
Well, I am glad I wasn't the only one.