LESS RACISM, MORE RUFUS
― cynthia batter blaster (Stevie D), Saturday, 19 June 2010 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
It's today
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
What is the traditional way to celebrate this auspicious day?
― Aimless, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
Reading Paula Deen for filth.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link
Thus
https://twitter.com/djbrainchild/status/347404444658442240
http://www.juneteenth.com/worldwide.htm
Alas, this list of events in all the US states is only useful if you can go back in time to 2011
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
http://www.galvestondailynews.com/lifestyle/leisure/article_8f142b4e-d899-11e2-9800-001a4bcf6878.html
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130619/NEWS01/706199949
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
So they read the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, Texas this morning.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
by chance, was reading 'lincoln's hundred days' by louis masur -- about the 100 days leading up to the release of the proclamation -- while waiting for my car to be worked on this morning. a terrific read.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
anyone here read the "novel" "by" ellison? I love invisible man. Is it one of the good unfinished works?
― sjuttiosju_u (wins), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link
quotation marks fully justified. it's a mess and a fake.
― oxygenating our wombspace (abanana), Thursday, 20 June 2013 00:13 (ten years ago) link
WHITE CO-WORKER: "And then I noticed there was hardly any traffic on the road. Then I remembered, it was Juneteenth!"
ME: "Yeah! Federal holiday and everything now."
WCW: "But you know, too bad it's not for us..."
ME: ...
ME: "I don't know about that? I mean, we're all Americans."
WCW: ...
WCW: "I mean, we're not bankers or postal workers, Plains."
― pplains, Monday, 20 June 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
I sincerely hope your WCW was thinking in this vein: FASTER YOU FUCKERS - The ILX Work & Productivity Thread, bcz if not that was a regrettable exchange.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 20 June 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
Overheard a confused woman at the grocery store who couldn't figure out why she was going to a June 10th barbecue when it was almost the 20th.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 20 June 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link