[Right Side of History] Happy Juneteenth, Americanos! - Kotaku In Action 2

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[Right Side of History] Happy Juneteenth, Americanos! (media.kotakuinaction2.win)

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– exilde 45 points 3 years ago +46 / -1

Juneteenth is such a stupid word.

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– Assassin47 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

Apparently some major general just called it that and everyone went along without question. "Emancipation Day" sounds better as a federal holiday name.

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– exilde 20 points 3 years ago +20 / -0

https://www.al.com/news/2020/06/what-is-juneteenth-why-is-it-called-juneteenth-how-to-celebrate-history-facts.html

The day's name is a combination of "June" and "nineteenth" in honor of the date of Granger's announcement and first appeared around 1903. It is also known as African American Freedom Day or Emancipation Day.

The ebonics explanation seems more likely.

Can't wait to shoot some fire crackas on Julourth.

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– SupremeReader [S] 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

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.

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