We have two summer holidays and one “based on race” because the one “based on race” recognizes the time Union soldiers arrived on the Texan shores and forcibly freed a group of people subjugated based on their race–it just didn’t happen to fall on July 4th.
The two holidays recognize two completely different things it doesn’t matter when in the damn year it occurred.
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We have two summer holidays and one “based on race” because the one “based on race” recognizes the time Union soldiers arrived on the Texan shores and forcibly freed a group of people subjugated based on their race–it just didn’t happen to fall on July 4th.
The two holidays recognize two completely different things it doesn’t matter when in the damn year it occurred.
It’s only “based on race” because slavery was based on race. It’s the end of slavery, not “Black people day.”
That’s like saying July 4th is “all about the British.”