Juneteenth was for many decades a local Houston celebration of when Union troops came into town and told the slaves there of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. It was never meant to be anything more than a local celebration until black activists (grifters) took it and made it into a cause célèbre.
"Grandmother of Juneteenth"
So it was invented.
Which means it's a grift.
Juneteenth was for many decades a local Houston celebration of when Union troops came into town and told the slaves there of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. It was never meant to be anything more than a local celebration until black activists (grifters) took it and made it into a cause célèbre.
After the failure of Kwanzaa, they felt like they needed something. Blacks are always out in the streets, anyways, in June.