Florida State Seminoles
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Happy Juneteenth eCat!
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I have a colleague who is a chief financial officer for a small company on the West Coast. He insists on interviewing every single person the company is about to hire, no matter what level of position. Well, a young lady was about to get an offer from his company but before that was to happen, he met with her, last screening. The CFO asked her if she had any more questions about their company and she asked him (the CFO) if their company celebrated Juneteenth? His first thought was, what a ridiculous question for me. I am the CFO. You can ask anyone in HR. But (her asking that question) got the wheels turning in his head so after she asked him that he told her to wait in the lobby for a couple minutes before she was to meet with someone else. It allowed him to do a quickie background check. Sure enough. she had had some criminal problems that they didn't initially catch, problems that she didn't share. So, he made sure, no job offer for her.
Juneteenth is ridiculous. But its existence provided an advantage for my friend in that he was able to bless out a bad candidate who insisted that it be celebrated. I think we can call that karma.
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That didn't happen...
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Heh. Okay, call me a liar. Fine. I don't have to impress you. I know it happened.
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"Heh. Okay, call me a liar. "
I did...
I did...
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Why do you lie IB?
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I'll bet ecat is up in Alaska right now yelling at Eskimos to go back to their own country if they can't speak english.
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The idea that all of you all out there outside of Texas have even heard of Juneteenth is weird to me. It's also strange to see so many people explaining what it is and they haven't the first clue. I can already see that it is going to be like Cinco de Mayo with a million people all saying it originates in events that it doesn't originate from.
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Don't worry. We here all know how big a part Texas was in the ending slavery thing. You're still at least 2 years behind today.
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I know you did. I have never called you a liar.
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Because he's not a liar. You are.
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I wasn't talking to you rat.
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"I can already see that it is going to be like Cinco de Mayo with a million people all saying it originates in events that it doesn't originate from."
Everybody knows Cinco de Mayo originated when Columbus discovered tequila...
Everybody knows Cinco de Mayo originated when Columbus discovered tequila...
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My coworker asked the office retard if he knew what Juneteenth was, he mumbled "it's something for the gays innit?"....
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I saw somebody retweet this one for example...
Juneteenth has nothing to with officially freeing the last slaves. It marks the arrival of Union Troops in Galveston, TX on June 19, 1865 and enforced the Emancipation Proclamation (which freed slaves in "rebellious states") in Texas. The "official" action would have been the Emancipation Proclamation itself which was made on January 1, 1863. In addition, it didnt mark the theoretical end of slavery in the United States either, because several slave states were not rebellious states. Two of the five border states (Kentucky and Delaware) took no action to free their slaves during the war (or after) and slaves there were not "officially" freed until the 13th Amendment came into effect on December 6, 1865.
Juneteenth has nothing to with officially freeing the last slaves. It marks the arrival of Union Troops in Galveston, TX on June 19, 1865 and enforced the Emancipation Proclamation (which freed slaves in "rebellious states") in Texas. The "official" action would have been the Emancipation Proclamation itself which was made on January 1, 1863. In addition, it didnt mark the theoretical end of slavery in the United States either, because several slave states were not rebellious states. Two of the five border states (Kentucky and Delaware) took no action to free their slaves during the war (or after) and slaves there were not "officially" freed until the 13th Amendment came into effect on December 6, 1865.
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Delaware and Kentucky both belatedly ratified the 13th amendment...in 1901 and 1976.
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Tell that to the negros.
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That's about the same time UK starting letting negroes play for them...
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