Should more companies observe
Juneteenth as a holiday?
CBS News,
by
Khristopher J. Brooks
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
6/12/2020 6:43:39 PM
Some prominent U.S. businesses are giving workers June 19 as a paid day off, a gesture to recognize the liberation of slaves during the Civil War. Twitter, Nike and the NFL announced this week they would observe Juneteenth – the day 155 years ago that African-Americans in Texas learned they were free from slavery. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said Tuesday that Juneteenth will be "a day for celebration, education and connection" at the company. Dorsey's other company, mobile payment provider Square, also will make Juneteenth a paid company holiday, he said. Nike CEO John Donahoe said Thursday that recognizing Juneteenth is
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/12/2020 6:47:32 PM (No. 442671)
No. They already have their own month and a fake Christmas holiday. Enough is enough.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hairy Eyeball 6/12/2020 6:47:46 PM (No. 442672)
All for a Holiday celebrating the Republicans freeing the slaves. Dems have been furious ever since.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 6/12/2020 6:48:53 PM (No. 442674)
In the U.S., we have a whole month (February) dedicated to "commemorate and celebrate Black history and culture."
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
edgar 6/12/2020 6:51:47 PM (No. 442677)
It's your business. Celebrate with your employees as you wish.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
brother ram 6/12/2020 6:57:09 PM (No. 442683)
I would laugh my ass off if DJT proclaimed it a Federal Holiday in a couple of days. It would drive the liberals out of their mind (like most things DJT does). Could you picture the Donald proclaiming it at say the Lincoln Library in Springfield Illinois - I can dream can't I?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/12/2020 6:57:33 PM (No. 442684)
Back in my pre-retirement gainfully employed days I tried to take a day off for MLK day. I was told by my white boss that that one was for the black employees only. Sorry buggers wouldn't even pay me extra for coming in to work.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
marbles 6/12/2020 7:03:33 PM (No. 442688)
Would it be a day especially set aside for looting and rioting?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jennie C. 6/12/2020 7:10:22 PM (No. 442693)
Why would any company?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rather Read 6/12/2020 7:16:01 PM (No. 442698)
Juneteenth is a real deal. Keep it and toss Kwanzaa.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 6/12/2020 7:18:14 PM (No. 442700)
It says "workers" are getting the day off. That narrows the field right there.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
snakeoil 6/12/2020 7:24:51 PM (No. 442702)
There are only 365 days per year. We already have too many. New Year's Day, there's no spot on the Earth's orbit that say start here. Labor Day, a totally pointless political holiday. Why not combine MLK Day, George Floyd Day, Kwanzaa, Juneteenth, Emancipation Day, etc to one day, February 30. Quid Pro Joe has stated that George Floyd is more important than MLK. Heck in South Carolina Succession Day is a holiday. Soon we will make the French look like a workaholics.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Digger 6/12/2020 7:25:22 PM (No. 442703)
Juneteenth was the birthday of my ex-mother-in-law, the world’s greatest expert. (Sorry, I couldn’t help it.)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jed 6/12/2020 7:33:35 PM (No. 442706)
Call it Republicans Grant Freedom Day
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 6/12/2020 7:35:57 PM (No. 442709)
Get up off your knees, and get real.
No.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
jjs 6/12/2020 7:38:07 PM (No. 442712)
I don't get any days off anymore so it doesn't matter to me. I'm working for all the days off everyone else gets.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
jjs 6/12/2020 7:40:27 PM (No. 442716)
p.s. including working for all the people to be on welfare.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 6/12/2020 7:46:16 PM (No. 442722)
Yes, but only if Festivus is also added as a holiday (s/o)
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 6/12/2020 7:49:12 PM (No. 442725)
Who is surprised? Twitter is far left idiots, and Nike and the NFL suffer from the Colin Cancer which destroyed the NFL.
Every day is a new revelation of stupid ideas.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 6/12/2020 7:58:12 PM (No. 442730)
No... But I got a feeling we're going to.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
maryann4629 6/12/2020 8:01:19 PM (No. 442732)
/eyeroll/
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
GO3 6/12/2020 8:10:36 PM (No. 442743)
We've got so many holidays we're starting to look like Germany.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
EQKimball 6/12/2020 8:12:50 PM (No. 442744)
General Granger's premature announcement notwithstanding, slavery was abolished on December 6, 1865 with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
janjan 6/12/2020 8:26:04 PM (No. 442759)
The blacks in my company get to celebrate Juneteenth by coming to work and getting paid to do it.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
beca 6/12/2020 8:37:26 PM (No. 442772)
Absolutely not. People are insane ..
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 6/12/2020 9:07:46 PM (No. 442796)
You mean when Republicans freed the slaves?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
padiva 6/12/2020 9:23:35 PM (No. 442813)
Can we have a day off to commemorate when the prison camps were liberated at the end of WWII?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 6/12/2020 9:31:22 PM (No. 442816)
Why stop there? Let's give them Janteenth, Febteenth, Marchteenth, Apteenth, Mayteenth, Julyteenth, Augteenth, Septeenth, Octeenth, Novteenth, and Decteenth. Isn't that what they want? To NOT work?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Ribicon 6/12/2020 9:52:28 PM (No. 442826)
An entire month, plus MLK Day, plus Kwanzaa, and now perhaps Juneteenth. Thirty-one calendar days to reflect on the very admirable skin color one specific race, and the dubious achievement of some remote ancestors possibly having been slaves (a status shared by most peoples at some point in the past). And on the other hand, one day to recognize US veterans and one day to honor all US presidents. What's wrong with this picture?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/12/2020 9:56:08 PM (No. 442830)
No, next thing you know they'll be demanding Bo Diddley and Marvin Gaye Birthday celebration days off too. It's all about getting paid for nothin'.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/12/2020 9:57:24 PM (No. 442833)
Are the 10 cents an hour Nike shoe company workers in China going to get that day off, with pay? Just asking for a friend.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/12/2020 10:50:07 PM (No. 442860)
You can bet that those corporations will not tell their employees that while the Democrats wanted slavery to continue, that it was a Republican President, Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/13/2020 1:55:40 AM (No. 442936)
Apparently $30 trillion of welfare reparations isn't enough.
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They all fight to take MLK day off but few show up at parades. "You get to pick four holidays and work the rest. Which ones are important to you?"
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
watashiyo 6/13/2020 2:56:15 AM (No. 442963)
Well then, make March 26, a national holiday as 120K Japanese-Americans were released from the internment camps. They were incarcerated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a DEMOCRAT during WWII!
What is it with the Democrats? First, they fought to keep the blacks as slaves and then incarcerated the Japanese-Americans because they didn't look like, ....one of them!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 6/13/2020 10:25:13 AM (No. 443301)
Kinda reminds me of the riddle about why people like St Patrick's Day more than MLK's birthday...….
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
LadyVet 6/18/2020 9:06:09 AM (No. 448380)
#35, Juneteenth is more like St Patrick's Day. In Texas, I remember it more for BBQ and goodtimes. I still think of BBQ goat. Of course now, I suppose it will have to be officially "cabrito" in order not to insult our other neighbors.
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I never heard of it being an officially recognized holiday.