**Happy Juneteenth**

[Rasputin]

What are you doing to celebrate this new Federal holiday?


What's on the dinner menu?


Did you get the day off or got to work and collect holiday pay?


Happy Juneteenth

[Wisconsin_Chief]

Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger

This is about RACE you moron. Not about who was on fecking welfare. YOU may be able to function in daily life without the need to think about racial issues. But others DON'T. The world doesn't revolve around YOU and your life jackass. That's the point which you apparently missed.

You made it about me when you implied I had some sort of privilege in my life simply because of my skin color, which is utter bullshit. I couldn’t care less what you think about that, or anything else for that matter.

Now, by all means, carry on embarrassing yourself.

[ChiTown]

I’m shocked this thread hasn’t either been DC’d or Romper’d. Amazing…

[stevieray]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

I’m shocked this thread hasn’t either been DC’d or Romper’d. Amazing…

cuck!

[rydogg58]

Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger

You're entitled to live how you live buddy. But some folks are forced to face racial situations every single day and don't have the privilege to not think about it.

I highly doubt anyone treats you that way because of the color of your skin. They treat you that way because you're a ****ing moron and they probably don't like you.

[BleedingRed]

I love this thread for so many reasons

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by stevieray

cuck!

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

Thread has burst.

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

Originally Posted by Coochie liquor

Yeah. I mean they did what they had to do. If those settlers didn’t take the land from them, the Spanish probably would have. We wiped away the previous culture, just like they surely did the ones before them. Humanity = shit

Coochie,

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[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

I always celebrate this day with some beef taco cones.

You can use a muffin pan to make them stand straight up!

That looks like Madonna and her backup dancers from the 80s.

[JohnnyHammersticks]

Originally Posted by The Franchise

Who are you again?

Your daddy.

Isn't that obvious by now?

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by MarkDavis'Haircut

Labor Day, sure.

Columbus Day, no. We aren't here without Columbus' expedition. It changed the world forever.

Columbus didn’t discover what’s now the USA. And even if his ship sunk at sea. They would have sent more ships. All the countries knew there may be new wealth in the new world for them to bring back home. He was not a unique man that without him the Americans would have went undiscovered. It would have delayed it by a year at the most.

[jdubya]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Columbus didn’t discover what’s now the USA. And even if his ship sunk at sea. They would have sent more ships. All the countries knew there may be new wealth in the new world for them to bring back home. He was not a unique man that without him the Americans would have went undiscovered. It would have delayed it by a year at the most.

So if Columbus didn’t do it, somebody else eventually would. Got it.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by The Franchise

What's that? A thread on CP so that people can make thinly veiled racial remarks? I'm shocked, I tell you!

Or it's a thread about a brand new Federal holiday that celebrates Freedom

[UChieffyBugger]

Originally Posted by Wisconsin_Chief

You made it about me when you implied I had some sort of privilege in my life simply because of my skin color, which is utter bullshit. I couldn’t care less what you think about that, or anything else for that matter.

Now, by all means, carry on embarrassing yourself.

No idiot you said "I THINK ABOUT RACE ZERO TIMES" SO YOU MADE IT ABOUT YOURSELF DUMMY!!. Bottom line is don't try and tell people how they should feel when you aren't in their shoes. Plain and simple.

[Mephistopheles Janx]

Originally Posted by Coochie liquor

No I get it. Every country was doing it. Just sucks. What a huge divide it still causes, even though it’s been over for this long.

But I agree, what has and is going on just sucks! Wasn’t our doing, but I hate it nonetheless.

You do realize that the first black person to enroll in an all white public school is still alive and is "only" 69 years old, right? Legalized slavery may have ended a while back but the repercussions from it are definitely still felt today. People living right now have experienced being a second class citizen in the very nation whose military uniform they wore. I, for one, can understand why this day would be a cause for national celebration as the freeing of the last slaves is a pretty massive historical landmark. Just like the Isrealites being freed from Egypt was a major landmark event in the bible.

Is it *YOUR* fault these people went through that? No.

Is it the fault of the government that still exists today? Yes.

Is it the fault of "your" (the general your as it refers to the average white person whose family has been in the US for a considerable amount of time) ancestors for the condition we find ourselves in today? Yes.

Relations between the races today is simply generational trauma inflicted on us by the people before it. They got to use people as slaves and treat them as sub-human when they couldn't be kept as slaves anymore. Made a bunch of money off of it and peaced the **** out straight to hell without having to deal with any of the consequences.

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I don't believe anyone here is gonna force you (the general you) to celebrate this holiday but I would hope that in the context of history and the whole "love your neighbor as yourself" would lead some to be at least a little introspection regarding the position the descendants of the people we as a nation, unwillingly, brought over then shit on for 200 years.

Today being a holiday takes absolutely nothing away from anyone.