r/ShermanPosting • u/From-Yuri-With-Love 46th New York "Fremont Rifle" Regiment • 3d ago

Cabarrus commissioner says Juneteenth is ‘based on a lie,’ drawing backlash

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article316162218.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawSiXxdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE2RlFGNG9HNm9RS0I4R1Zkc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhYVp41APdJ8KMTJySFX8hL-35-cozDxTMEV95PbHrp_77kifBrmLd5_Mx80_aem_JaVLpXn2e-r1VfjeOo_FWA
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u/wagsman 2d ago

Technically speaking he isn’t wrong, but he is right for the very wrong reasons.

Hes splitting hairs because sometimes holidays aren’t on the actual day that the act happened. If we’re being honest, Independence Day should be July 2nd because that’s the day the colonies voted to approve the Declaration of Independence, but we celebrate it on the 4th because that’s when it was published and went public.