(and delusional maga wannabes like Vivek) the holiday is neither 'fake,' 'pushing a woke narrative,' nor useless. It has history and significance.
Excerpts of fact, from the above linked article:
In June 1865, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, along with 2,000 federal troops, to occupy the former Confederate state. On June 19, Gen. Granger issued several general orders—among them, orders that declared the state government of Texas illegitimate, that Confederate soldiers and officials must report for parole, and that cotton was to be bought and sold with government oversight. General Order No. 3 pertained to the institution of slavery in Texas.
This order was delivered to enslaved African Americans in Galveston two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in Washington.
Many of the formerly enslaved people who heard the news left plantations and headed north. Those who remained in Galveston, however, marked June 19 the following year with a celebration. The day was dubbed Emancipation Day but, slowly, the term Juneteenth—a portmanteau of June and 19th—took hold. Celebrations and recognition of the day began to spread to neighboring states.
Representative Al Edwards, a Democrat from Houston, introduced a bill in June 1979 that called for Juneteenth to become a state holiday. The legislature passed the act in 1979, and Republican Governor William P. Clements Jr. signed it into law. The first state-sponsored Juneteenth celebration took place in 1980.
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