• Big Miku@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    Good meme! (I have no clue what any of it means other than the dates)

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      9 days ago

      Juneteenth celebrates the abolishment of slavery, I’d say people of colour are the most happy about that, and people of colour are stereotypically famous for making good food

      4th of July celebrates the US independence, which though not a predominantly a white holiday more white people (on account of being a racial majority) will celebrate it, and white people are stereotypically famous for making bland food

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      9 days ago

      Juneteenth does not celebrate the abolishment of slavery. It celebrates the news arriving in Houston. New Jersey had slavery six months after juneteenth. Also it only freed men.

      • Todd_cross@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I have never seen anything that says the Emancipation Proclamation or the 13th Amendment only freed men. Do you have a source for that?

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          8 days ago

          Did women have the right to vote, to open a bank account, to live without a man controlling them?

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            Was it legal to own a slave who was a woman? Did women legally have the same rights as other women, regardless of skin color?

            Clearly there weren’t equal rights, just as clearly as the end of slavery didn’t mean the end of racism, but this event is significant enough to stand on its own