How are you celebrating Juneteenth this year?

I have heard of it but unfortunately there has been no effort that I am aware of here in Boston to involve the white community. I wish it were treated as a more inclusive holiday.

@ETpro Just because you are white doesn’t mean that you and your family and friends can’t eat typical black / soul food at a BBQ or even invite some black friends to hang with you all and have then orchestrate the food.

@Kraken That’s true. I could be proactive about it. I just wish the black community here would reach out and try to include other races.

No, I don’t usually celebrate obscure holidays. I have started thinking about holidays in Sweden, since my oldest son lives there, but that’s about it.

@YARNLADY So American holidays that celebrate a quintessential moment in history are obscure?

@Kraken Along with the unending Christian days dedicated to Catholic saints, and many other examples. Now, if you were talking about the Trail of Tears Day, reenacted by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma on Labor Day every year.

@YARNLADY That would be a real important holiday to celebrate as I know you very well and I agree with you. It would be a nice Tomahawk in the hubris of Oct 12’s overly vaunted holiday of Columbus Day. He was a racist Christian pig that thought that Native Americans were savages. How ignorant the discoverers were to think so lowly of the indigenous population whereas they should have been filled with awe that societies existed on the fringes of Earth where the water was supposed to flow into nothingness. I got that from a movie I saw about Jason and the Argonauts on SyFy LOL!

In Arkansas we always have a Juneteenth concert. Usually some pretty big artists come. I’m not sure if they’re doing it this year.

@meagan that is way cool!
Glad to hear that :)

Wellllll. I’ve heard about it. I mentioned it to my family when I learned about it in school.
They broke out pictures of the family farm. Those pictures had pretttty graphic pictures of how they treated slaves.
So, no. I won’t be celebrating. My family is incredibly racist, and I’d prefer not to get shunned.
But I will text my one black friend and tell him that I still love him.

@rangerr That’s very sad. You have my sympathy. Racism is sickening. You know that due to the selective collection of blacks from Africa that only the strongest and most fit survived whereas any Reject European that made the trip to America was given a golden ticket. Yeah; you wonder why America has the best black athletes in the world and the smartest black people. It was Applied Darwinism at its most barbaric at worst. America has the best blacks (thoroughbreds almost) and that has only helped to make this country truly great but at a really barbaric cost which is sinister and totally evil.

@Kraken Yep. I think we’ve had T Pain, Ludacris, Lil Mama, Kelis, Young Joc, and all sorts or rappers and stuff show up. Its neat. Thousands of people show up. But I think last year they stopped having the entertainment come, and instead they’re just talking about freedom and things like that. They’ve made it religious, too.

I’ve never heard of it but then I’m neither American nor black.

Me too.^^ Interesting.

Never heard of it. But then, I’m about as white as it gets, not counting any possible Moorish influence on my family going back over two thousand years (ancestry.com doesn’t go back that far. ^_^).

As far as eating stereotypically “black food” as you suggested, I have some watermelon in my fridge, but I’m not really a fan of fried chicken.

I’ve heard of it. Many black people I know refuse to celebrate the 4th of July, and celebrate Juneteenth instead.
I don’t do anything for it. I’ll teach my children about it though. I don’t recall ever learning about it in school, it was mainly word of mouth and internet usage that I learned about it.

@rangerr I’m shocked to hear you say that.

Correction: The Trail of Tears Day was May 15, I had the date confused with the Annual Choctaw Gathering.

@casheroo It’s not how I feel, in anyway. I love everyone. I just don’t want to get kicked out of my family (who are incredibly racist.) I disapprove and try to talk to them about it, but they refuse to listen.

@YARNLADY Contact your senator and see if you can get that holiday to be recognized by the states in question. I guess Holiday is a misnomer as it is more of a memorial day. The US needs to give respect to the indigenous residents and make proper redress to those that were most ill treated. You got a lot of people that would support you and since liberal people actually care about their fellow man, I would invite you to organize a mass mailing to Obama so that he would be forced to see this and possibly enact a national day of remembrance. Native Americans do not have any holidays dedicated to them the last time I checked. Please: Thanks Giving and Columbus Day are invalid here.

@Seek_Kolinahr Get this about fried chicken. It will take the grease away sezz Chef Kevin (that’s me)

I live in The TB region of Florida in Pinellas County and Publix had an 8 piece special for just 3.99, It was mad crazy!!! It was in the open fridge compartment naturally since the hot and ready stuff always costs more. So when I went home all I needed to do was put the pieces I wanted to eat in my micro / convection oven and convected them for 22 mins on top of a paper towel and the fried chicken sweated out so much grease that it became healthy to eat. And BTW, they were fantastic but I removed most of the skin since I don’t eat that and I was saddened that I lost a lot of the breading in the process but the flavor was quite yummy though.

@Kraken

Hey, dude! I’m in Pasco!

And yeah, I’m all over the Publix specials. My son, particularly, loves it. Not me so much. When we get it, first thing I do is claim all the white meat for myself, and remove the skin.

We do go absolutely batshit over the $5 rotisseries when they have them. ^_^

@Seek_Kolinahr I actually got a rotisserie from Target today for 5 bux. It wasn’t bad at all and after I made garlic bread and heated up the bird in the oven again, that hen was totally delicious and I couldn’t move for about 3 hours and just lied on my bed watching TV like Jabba the Hutt. PubFlux does have some good deals now and then and when you get one you gotta pounce on it.