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   Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 03:21:44 JST Pete Zaitcev
   TIL that Junteenth is an actual holiday in the U.S.. I lived in this country for 27 years and it's the first time I hear about it.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 03:21:42 JST Sick Sun

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     @zaitcev I only heard about it a few years ago, it was mostly a Southern thing but now the media has made it bigger everywhere I guess.
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     Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 03:21:43 JST Pete Zaitcev

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     I asked a black friend if either, none, or one of Junteenth and Kwanzaa were fake holidays. His answer was that they had community parades for Junteenth when he grew up (in Houston, IIRC) but nobody heard about Kwanzaa. So Junteenth is definitely real, in fact a volk tradition.
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     John Fediverse (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 03:39:29 JST John Fediverse

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     • Sick Sun
     @sun @zaitcev North Omaha had parades for it going back into the 1990s
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 03:39:40 JST Sick Sun

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     @mrsaturday @zaitcev never heard about it in iowa/missouri
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 03:42:35 JST Sick Sun

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     • John Fediverse
     @mrsaturday @zaitcev I should not have generalized about the entire midwest. I personally never heard about it, even once, until maybe ten years ago.
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     John Fediverse (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 03:42:36 JST John Fediverse

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     • Sick Sun
     @sun @zaitcev Not even KC or St. Louis? I kind of wonder why it was a bigger deal in Omaha, then. For the longest time I thought it was just a festival for North O's black heritage since they never explained it beyond "they have a parade on the third weekend in June".