So this happened Saturday June 26th.
The stubbornness. The dogged insistence. But, maybe he could claim he was late because Texas was late? I don’t know. I also don’t know if he will delete the post, or if he will wish us all a happy belated Juneteenth.
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Update: he claims that the northern areas of St. Louis county celebrate on the 19th, yet St. Charles County, being further south, didn’t get the word until the 26th.
7 responses to “Gary Needs to Have his Facebook Card Revoked”
That is painful. If he were trolling them, that is one thing, and also not a thing I endorse. If he were claiming that there are two Juneteenths, then he should have made that clear in his post so that people know what he’s celebrating. (but also: the 26th is not a “teenth”)
But some guys…
KC – Gary can never be wrong. If I am betting that “the sun rises in the East” I have learned I have to clarify “East as observed from our window” because when he is proven wrong he will say, “Oh I thought you meant East as observed from the North Pole” or some other nonsense.And, not trolling, just not paying attention to anything but fireworks.
I loved this ” St. Charles County, being further south, didn’t get the word until the 26th.” since way the heck down in Galveston Texas they got the word on June 19th, thus the whole Juneteenth thing.
I cannot even tell you how poorly I would cope with that sort of nonsense. But! People are different! and you’ve had graduate-level training in this by now, so there is that.
(the north/south thing also entertained me, although to be fair I do not know what year Gary’s putative First St Louis and St. Charles Juneteenth occurred; it might have been two years earlier than the Galveston one, maybe…)
KC – I was deeply ashamed of Texas, because I thought they were hiding the information out of spite. I didn’t think about it in context of the Civil war (I’m ashamed to say I thought it was over). No slaves in the south would have been in practicality freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. If your owner follows the laws of the Confederacy, he’d just ignore that Lincoln law. The end of the war caused the news to go through the south, 2 years after the EP, and for some reason Texas continued fighting the Civil War longer than other people. I knew none of this. But hey, I knew the date.
KP – I was under the impression (see above) that they were two years behind every other state, when in reality every state in the south was two years behind, Texas was two years and two days. Or something – I remain pretty ignorant about Juneteenth, though five years ago when a friend at work asked if I knew what it was, I said it was the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was close enough to surprise her.
I suspect southern states were probably hiding as much as they were able to the information that if they lost the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation would be in effect, but that would be motivated by various things in addition to spite. (because seriously, if your “owners” lose this war, you’re free: that would be motivational!)
Texas fighting after other people had stopped: also not terribly surprising to me, although I didn’t know it.
(and many companies today hide worker’s rights from them insofar as they can, because if you can grind that extra bit out of your workers, then hey, that’s an extra dollar in your pockets and in the pockets of your stockholders. So slaveholders wanting to not tell their slaves that they’re free: also not surprising to me. Humans *suck* so much, especially when they have power that should not be theirs and especially when they’ve tricked themselves into thinking a dehumanizing concept is the only *reasonable* and *practical* way of looking at the humans they have substantial control over.)