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I first learned of Juneteeth in Louisiana from this soul food restaurant in N'Awlins and was told the story by the owner's daughter. My wife and I were amazed that it took that long for them to realize they'd been emancipated and why was this not more celebrated outside of select areas of the south? We grew up in Arkansas and had never heard of it before.

I asked her why this wasn't more of a celebration and she just gave me this look that I can still see in my memory. You can try to empathize as best you can but there is no way anyone can know what it feels like to live inside someone else's skin. You can imagine it but not truly feel it.

I am a white male and damned lucky I wasn't born black because I wouldn't have made it this far, my anger and rage would have done me in. It never ceases to amaze me how some people can look past the hate and continue to love.
 
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Hennessy_King said:
What's crazy is I didn't find out about it until last year our schools in NJ never taught us about that day
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Same here. But I have learned the school system left out a whole bunch of stuff I have learned since I graduated high school. I swear, if they sat us down in front of the History Channel instead of our history teachers we would have learned so much more than we were taught. Then again, history became more interesting to me the older I got. It was boring in school - but I had the most boring history teachers, except for 1 who was also the football coach. Mr. Pine, my 8th grade history teacher, didn't use the text book. He went deeper into historical events and figures than other teachers. I had teachers that made us read the text books - in class. One actually read the newspaper while we all sat there reading the book!
 
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As a history major in college and someone who still constantly reads about history, much of it American history, I’m pretty amazed of how much is ignored or not taught. Then again, it’s not easy to cover everything in such a short amount of time.

African American history is obviously gaining traction but I believe that Native American history is still 99% ignored. Everyone learns about the Mayflower, maybe the Lewis and Clark expedition, and Little Bighorn but very few people ever hear of the Sand Creek Massacre or how American soldiers (both black and white) committed genocide against this group of indigenous people. Several cultures, languages and a race completely wiped out. To this day most live on reservations in absolute poverty and receive little to no government assistance. It’s disgusting

How often do we learn about the Japanese internment camps during WWII and how thousands of innocent and legitimate U.S citizens of Japanese ancestry were forced into these camps? Never.

Sorry Hennessy, didn’t mean to get side tracked off the topic. Living in TX, being a history major, reading a lot about the civil war and having worked in a predominately African American community for 5 years I’ve always been quite familiar with Juneteenth. Nice to see more people are becoming aware and that it’s being celebrated but it’s too bad we even need to celebrate/acknowledge that day if ya know what I mean.
 

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Hennessy_King said:
My bad I didn't mean to leave out the sisters lol
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No worries dear. Great thread! ;)
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That is how I have tried living my life. Just my two cents.
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May I add, you're a true gentleman as well.

No ignorance, arrogant insults, negativity, grammar cop, know it all, thinking you're better than someone, something, ever comes from any of your posts. :)
 
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aria said:
As a history major in college and someone who still constantly reads about history, much of it American history, I’m pretty amazed of how much is ignored or not taught. Then again, it’s not easy to cover everything in such a short amount of time.

African American history is obviously gaining traction but I believe that Native American history is still 99% ignored. Everyone learns about the Mayflower, maybe the Lewis and Clark expedition, and Little Bighorn but very few people ever hear of the Sand Creek Massacre or how American soldiers (both black and white) committed genocide against this group of indigenous people. Several cultures, languages and a race completely wiped out. To this day most live on reservations in absolute poverty and receive little to no government assistance. It’s disgusting

How often do we learn about the Japanese internment camps during WWII and how thousands of innocent and legitimate U.S citizens of Japanese ancestry were forced into these camps? Never.

Sorry Hennessy, didn’t mean to get side tracked off the topic. Living in TX, being a history major, reading a lot about the civil war and having worked in a predominately African American community for 5 years I’ve always been quite familiar with Juneteenth. Nice to see more people are becoming aware and that it’s being celebrated but it’s too bad we even need to celebrate/acknowledge that day if ya know what I mean.
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Ive self taught myself a ton about history after i graduated school. Most is left out. The best part about american history is you can trace issues that prevalent today based on decisions from many years ago.

Agreed about native americans the war crimes this country committed were atrocious. Being in the north they harp heavily on ww2/holocaust barely talk about the civil war and native americans. I have my own theories to why but its amazing what they didnt teach us.
 
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CouchCoach said:
I first learned of Juneteeth in Louisiana from this soul food restaurant in N'Awlins and was told the story by the owner's daughter. My wife and I were amazed that it took that long for them to realize they'd been emancipated and why was this not more celebrated outside of select areas of the south? We grew up in Arkansas and had never heard of it before.

I asked her why this wasn't more of a celebration and she just gave me this look that I can still see in my memory. You can try to empathize as best you can but there is no way anyone can know what it feels like to live inside someone else's skin. You can imagine it but not truly feel it.

I am a white male and damned lucky I wasn't born black because I wouldn't have made it this far, my anger and rage would have done me in. It never ceases to amaze me how some people can look past the hate and continue to love.
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Great post just trying to empathize is a great starting point. Ive personally experienced things that most wouldn't believe
 
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Hennessy_King said:
Ive self taught myself a ton about history after i graduated school. Most is left out. The best part about american history is you can trace issues that prevalent today based on decisions from many years ago.

Agreed about native americans the war crimes this country committed were atrocious. Being in the north they harp heavily on ww2/holocaust barely talk about the civil war and native americans. I have my own theories to why but its amazing what they didnt teach us.
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Ha...it’s crazy that the history of the country and world vary by region in the United States but I’m not surprised. 100% agree with being able to trace issues today to what happened in the past which is a large part of the reason I love history and find it fascinating.

Not just in the U.S, but world wide, I think people would be a lot more understanding of the way things are the way they are today from cultures, international boundaries, governments, attitudes, wars, etc if they knew about the past. When you think about it, our “founding fathers” (or whatever you want to call them) would have been considered terrorists by todays standards which is what they pretty much were at the time!

I don’t care if it’s “negative” or “positive” history, I think it’s important to teach all of it, not ignore or erase it.
 
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