not even just the whole commercialization...that's a whole issue in and of itself....
but...the sheer volume of "events" and "Things" being promoted, happening, going on, etc...

Maybe it's FOMO?
I don't know...

it's a lot though.

<--- Big Baller World Order

Like:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Unity-Men-s-and-Big-Men-s-Short-Sleeve-Graphic-T-Shirt-2-Pack/370692193?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Juneteenth-Bundle-Short-Sleeve-Graphic-Tee/687598613?athbdg=L1300

https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-5190215/juniors-juneteenth-1865-celebrate-freedom-circle-graphic-tee.jsp

Also some stuff at Ross.

It's really REALLY a lot more commercialized this year than anytime I noticed.

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Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

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That's where I'm at with it. We really needed those voting bills and the police reform to be enacted to get more substantive gains on top of a holiday.

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-Blackthought is the dopest emcee alive
-Uncle Sam and Santa Clause are good buddies.
-Be selfless and the world will be a better place.

Why not?!?

We supposed to be sitting around all somber on Junetenth like its a wake or should we be outchere BBQ'ing and celebrating?



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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

That may eventually happen, but it ain't that kind of party. I don't want Desantis sitting eating some collard greens w/ ham hocks talking about he celebrating Juneteenth on Twitter.

**Sig**
-Blackthought is the dopest emcee alive
-Uncle Sam and Santa Clause are good buddies.
-Be selfless and the world will be a better place.

>Why not?!?
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>We supposed to be sitting around all somber on Junetenth like
>its a wake or should we be outchere BBQ'ing and celebrating?
>

like Cinco De Mayo and St. Patricks Day if some solemnity isn't injected into the holiday.

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Both are huge commercial days.

Even memorial day, which is supposed to be a day of rememberence of the day, is just a big cookout weekend.

Not sure what folks had in mind when they got a federal holiday in the middle of the summer.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

commemorative/educational. however, that's not how the US celebrates, especially in the summer.

I find it weird too because many pre-fed holiday celebrations include vendors selling their goodies. so this had to be expected on some level.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

<--- Big Baller World Order

This country is always going to try to make money off a holiday

but WE should definitely party and make the most of it.

I remember a Juneteenth celebration in Philly and one in VA.. and maybe one in NYC but I can’t front, had no idea why it was a thing. Just thought it was another reason for a block party or a street festival.

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Navem nu, cuando sol
Tutu nu, vondo nos nu
Vita em, no continous non
Nos nu ekta nos sepe ta, amen

When the sun shades the ship
We sweat and life is not safe
To swim or to touch not
When we unite we hedge amen

My people are turning it into a reunion for our town. We used to have it in August and it fell off once the elders started to pass on.

Realized it made sense to come home for Juneteenth and support our local community center.

I’m excited.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

I never heard of it being celebrated outside of TX before it was declared a national holiday

My relatives in VA had jokes years ago about it when I told em bout it

now they all getting it poppin




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"Love is never any better than the lover" Toni Morrison (The Bluest Eye)

in 1999....
even then I just thought it was some cool DC shit because they'd have a parade or something downtown and I would always happen to be around at work that day...

We gotta live man. We can't let these mfs steal out joy. Bring a roscoe if you gotta. Carry a clip of armor piercing rounds if you gotta, but we gotta live, y'all.

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"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do!" - Olin Miller

but you are correct

we gotta live.

fuck them

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*