[Right Side of History] Happy Juneteenth, Americanos!
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Apparently some major general just called it that and everyone went along without question. "Emancipation Day" sounds better as a federal holiday name.
https://www.al.com/news/2020/06/what-is-juneteenth-why-is-it-called-juneteenth-how-to-celebrate-history-facts.html
The ebonics explanation seems more likely.
Can't wait to shoot some fire crackas on Julourth.
It sounds like one of these creepy Russian or German, uh, manywords. You know, like "Komintern" or "Gestapo" (that's the easy ones, there are many very long and unpronounceable). That inspired Orwell's Newspeak.
According to this guy, who's also pushing the identity politics shit:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-juneteenth-nameand-holidayspread-11623952376
Nobody knows the "true" origin of the word, but it the oldest usage of the word came from black Texas slaves after they were freed by the Proclamation or some shit.
Some "Black newspaper" (notice the capitalization) used it. So my impression is that it indeed was a eubonics thing - another adoption of eubonics being shoved into our mainstream culture (where do they think shit like sus, Netflix and chill, etc come from?)
Props for doing the research, all the sites I read had no clue and didn't bother to explain beyond "It's a combination of June and Nineteenth" as if we couldn't figure that out.
I agree. Imagine calling Christmas (Christ's Mass) "Dectwenfifth" or some garbage. "Emancipation Day" is much better.