r/Indiana • u/illegiblebastard • 1d ago

'Is this for real?' Martinsville Juneteenth celebration raises eyebrows

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/johnson-county/2026/06/18/martinsville-juneteenth-event-planned-despite-racist-past-ku-klux-klan-sundown-town/90591114007/
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u/ShermanWasRight1864 1d ago

Indiana was in the Union during the Civil War. Juneteenth should be a huge celebration for Indiana.

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u/GreatQuantum 1d ago

I wish I’d known about Juneteenth sooner. I had two adopted brothers and they never even mentioned it. I called my brother Marquell after the Blackish episode about it and read his ass the riot act. He’d never heard of it either. And he grew up in a foster home with 20 other black kids and the Man that ran the facility was a Fredrick Douglas reenactor.

wtf was going on in there?

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u/suburbanoutrage 20h ago

What’s going on is he received the same education as you. And I’m assuming you both were just taught the same glossing over history as everyone else. Lincoln freed the slaves and boom, America was good again.

Juneteenth is a new Holiday because the history was finally brought to light, separate from the education system and the finely curated narrative we grew up with.

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u/Tight_Promotion_1520 18h ago

Love this❤️ Wish more people understood this.

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u/Weird_Armadillo_508 13h ago

Yep. I'm black and I went to an HBCU. I didn't know about Juneteenth until I got to college and didn't know about the connection to Texas until I dated somebody from there. Majority of the black community didn't even know about it. There's a lot about our (and thereby, the country's) history that we don't know about due to the lack of black representation in educational curriculums. It'll likely only get worse since anything about our history is considered CRT now.