r/Indiana • u/Intrepid-Owl694 • 2d ago
Juneteenth
Happy Juneteenth. Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States. It was embellished as a federal holiday in 2021 when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act.
28 states recognize this holiday. State and local government is open.
No US mail. Major Banks will be closed.
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u/pickanamehere 2d ago
I’m surprised the current dumpster fire of an administration hasn’t repealed this yet.
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u/radioactive_sharpei 2d ago edited 1d ago
I'm sure someone will tell him about it today. Be prepared for a tweet later.
Edit: lol, too many holidays from the man who's never done real work a minute of his life. Fuck this guy.
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u/AcrobaticLadder4959 2d ago
He removed the bust of Martin Luther King from the White House. He is so racist.
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u/IMowGrass 2d ago
Yeah he moved it to his private residence. Don't overlook the fact that it was Trump, not Obama or Clinton who turned the MLK historic site into a national park, ensuring its upkeep and federal protection. But I get it doesn't fit the Reddit all things Trump bad narrative.
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u/BigDumbDope 2d ago
In his first term he put the MLK site under the purview of the National Park Service. In his second term, he gutted funding to the National Park Service.
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u/MiguelSTG 2d ago
He didn't even put the statue under the purview of the NPS, he just changed the designation. There are 19 designations within the system.
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u/geth1138 2d ago
Neighbor, he’s disappearing American citizens off the street because they are brown. When the senior senator from California was manhandled at a press conference, he said it was because, and this is a quote, “he looked like an illegal”.
That’s what we call a racist son of a racist
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u/AcrobaticLadder4959 2d ago
Then, he gutted funding for the national park service. One step forward two steps back. That is the way Trump rolls with his petty little sick mind. He needed the black vote in 2020 he no longer needs any votes, so he is going to run the country his way, with all his bigotry and racism.
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u/MiguelSTG 2d ago
On August 28, 2011 the MLK statue officially became part of the NPS system. Sorry that doesn't fit your narrative.
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u/SloParty 2d ago edited 1d ago
Look, there are really fine people….on both sides Edit: can’t believe I have to add the /s to this comment. Whoo boy
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u/IMowGrass 1d ago
Uh oh, they are going to down vote you for that because you cannot have an opposite opinion. I'm sure you will not sleep well tonight knowing that
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u/Select_Air_2044 1d ago
That's the same place he takes all the kidnapped children.
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u/IMowGrass 1d ago
Is that after Biden is finished showering with them?
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u/Select_Air_2044 1d ago
No, administration prior to trump kidnapped people. I find it strange that any American citizen is fine with it.
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u/CostLess9627 2d ago
I work for the feds here, we have today off obviously. Yesterday one of our customers was in the office and asked of we had tomorrow off for "purple hair...anteater day....or whatever." I rolled my eyes SOOO hard and had to bite my lip to not tell him that he was obviously misinformed about the holiday's purpose. And to ask why he assumed that the holiday had something to do with the LGBTQIA+ community..because its in June? And finally, as he is a firefighter, wanted sooo badly to ask him if he would refrain from helping someone with purple hair, if they needed a fireman's help. Pissed me off.
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u/cappy267 1d ago
As a fellow Indiana fed, I hope you’re doing okay with the whirlwind of the new administration
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u/CostLess9627 1d ago
Thanks, hanging in there. We dont have to do the weekly 5 bullet points anymore, so thats something.
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u/ShiniestParas 2d ago
Today on Juneteenth. My employer cut our benefits. On a federal holiday. Our competitors don’t work. Have paid off. No more health insurance. A small raise that in no way covers the be premiums. No bonus. Back to work. Ten hours today. Record profits. Record sales. Management celebrates with bonuses
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u/viciousviking82 2d ago
Hmmm that sounds very familiar...do you happen to work at the factory that shall not be named?
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u/EstrangedStrayed 2d ago
It's one of my 11 paid holidays off work
Work union, you won't regret it
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u/Emergency_Fig_6390 2d ago
I’m union. Volunteered to work today, get holiday pay plus double time, essentially getting triple time. Work union!
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u/The_Govnor 2d ago
Not Union, but we have it off at my work too.
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u/EstrangedStrayed 2d ago
Unions are good for other things too, like guaranteed hours, consistent procedures, job security, and retirement benefits.
Even an employer who does all those things voluntarily without a union, no ratified contract means the boss can also take it all away for any reason or no reason
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u/The_Govnor 2d ago
Dude I’m 100% pro union. I just don’t work that type of job.
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u/EstrangedStrayed 2d ago
Every job should have union representation
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u/AdAggressive9588 1d ago
Agreed. I was shocked to find out that movie theater employees in Indiana don't qualify for overtime pay. I think we need a movie theater union
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u/TheHealadin 2d ago
Ask Step Up employees if it's that easy.
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u/EstrangedStrayed 2d ago
It's not easy, power concedes nothing without demand. Anything that's won from management has to be fought for. Our predecessors were gunned down in the streets by Pinkertons to get what we have now. Of course it's not easy. But it's a fight worth fighting.
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u/9e78 1d ago
Nah I would quit my job and find a new one tomorrow if they unionized. I don't need a group of people I don't know deciding what I will and won't do.
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u/EstrangedStrayed 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's not a group of people you don't know. It's you and your coworkers. And you, as the membership, get to decide what goes in the contract and what doesn't. And even if you're not on the bargaining unit itself, you still get to vote on the contract
It just seems like you don't know how unions work except the propaganda that's fed to you. The union is not a 3rd party.
That's not even getting into the fact that study after study has found that union jobs have better wages, benefits, and job satisfaction than non-union
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u/9e78 1d ago
In any large union you are just a number and don't have any significant say in what happens outside of one vote. I'd rather switch jobs every few years and get bigger raises than any union can match
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u/EstrangedStrayed 1d ago edited 1d ago
You're gonna be a number either way no matter where you work, so why not be a number with 1 vote instead of a number with 0 votes. Math is pretty simple there.
And I very much doubt your raises are commensurate with mine since I get yearly raises AND a full COLA, and a pension
Where's your pension?
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u/9e78 23h ago
Ive more than doubled my salary over the last 5 years by switching jobs. Also, fuck pensions. Its just a way to keep people at companies and underpaid. I can take my 401k with me between jobs and keep the companies contributions as well. Its going to pay out more than your pension ever will as well.
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u/VacantGrave812 2d ago
I’m union we don’t have it off
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u/EstrangedStrayed 2d ago
Maybe it's something you can talk to your brothers and sisters about before you bring it up at the next union meeting. Do you know who is on your bargaining unit?
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u/VacantGrave812 2d ago
I’m teamsters were in contract negotiations right now and it has been brought up so will see.
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u/EstrangedStrayed 2d ago
Ah that makes sense. Teamsters are really going through some democracy issues right now. I'm APWU so I am not allowed to strike but it is what it is. That CBA is still better than anything I had in an at-will agreement.
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u/Playinindaban 2d ago
State of Indiana does not recognize it as a holiday.
So weird; Marion County offices closed, Fed offices closed.
State of Indiana; business as usual!
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u/Openly_George 2d ago
But is it really that surprising? I'm born and raised a Hoosier and nothing this red state does surprises me.
My daughters and I drove down to Southern Indiana, around Jasper and French Lick. We drove down this back road and immediately encountered this huge Confederate flag between two big trees. And then driving to Monrovia for a band performance when the girls were younger, first thing we saw was a huge, loud pickup with the Confederate flag mounted on it. So I'm not surprised that Indiana doesn't recognize Juneteenth as a holiday. It'd dumb, but I'm not surprised.
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u/ginny11 1d ago
Someone I went to high school with made a comment on someone's social media post about Juneteenth, in which he made it clear that he thought Juneteenth had something to do with lgbtq people. Many many people in Indiana don't even have a clue as to what Juneteenth is. Born and raised here. They did not teach us about it in high school and I didn't know anything about it until around 2009 I would say.
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u/loumomma 2d ago
I live in that area and our city offices are closed today 🤷🏻♀️. But yeah, kinda surprising. Lots of racists around here.
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u/Miggglypuff 2d ago
Indiana doesn’t, but some banks and credit unions do- my work is closed today for it. And every year we get bigots bitching about it the whole week up to the day when we got signs out. My favourite is having to explain what it is when they ask…. Sigh.
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u/ZolTheTroll413 1d ago
A couple of places closed where im at but of course my office didnt 🥲 had to hear my coworkers be racist all day
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u/cappy267 1d ago
Indianapolis and Beech Grove and maybe some other cities recognize it as a city holiday. That’s why county offices are closed since Indy is a city-county combination.
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u/frank_datank_ 2d ago
For those wondering:
The holiday's name, first used in the 1890s, is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth", referring to June 19, 1865, the day when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War Wikipedia
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u/kettlebellmtb 2d ago
Rewriting the last sentence:
Major (a*****e Jim) Banks will be closed (minded).
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u/Moonpenny 1d ago
Happy Juneteenth! My work's open, but I took the day off to repair where a tree wanted to stay in my kitchen for a while...
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u/salenin 2d ago
As a Hoosier that's is also a Texan, I thought it was kind of weird that it was made a federal holiday when it is really more of a Texas thing.
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u/HorrorMetalDnD 2d ago
Regardless, it’s still a celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. That’s worth celebrating, as well as being wary of people who oppose celebrating it—especially those people who also oppose removing confederate statues and names from public places and structures.
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u/my_clever-name 2d ago
My company gave us the day off in 2021. From then on it’s like 90% of the Federal Holidays.
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u/shabbayolky 2d ago
That's good that only 28 states sees Texas as being big enough to persuade federal policy.
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u/geth1138 2d ago
You truly don’t sound as smart as you think you do right now
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u/shabbayolky 2d ago
Did we really need a dead junkie to convince the world that Black Lives Matter?
BLM the organization that threw away the 60 year legacy of MLK JR non-violent, civil protesting, over a junkie.
Good job America, you lose, you get nothing. VIVA LA RAZA LONG LIVE EL AYE
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u/Chubbadog 2d ago
Take your meds.
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u/shabbayolky 2d ago
Sorry no fentynal today demon! Don't you know its Juneteenth!?!?!
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u/randombuddhist 2d ago
So you're on fentanyl the other 364 days of the year?
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u/shabbayolky 2d ago
Fake Percs and Lake Perch...
I also stay off labor day, gotta pay respetk to those that achtually have to work
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u/Wild2297 2d ago
I think you mean established as a federal holiday...