I find this "list" to be insulting. Nancy ------- I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. --Daniel Boone On Jan 23, 2007, at 4:07 PM, Yojsouth wrote: > Well, here are some others that are celebrated in some states: > > National Dimpled Chad Day (Jan. 4) > > Hoodie-Hoo Day (Feb. 20) (You wave a beach blanket at the sun and > shout Hoodie-Hoo twice and it guarantees warmer weather) > > Be a Millionaire" Day (May 16) > > Eliza Doolittle Day (May 20) > > > In a message dated 01/23/07 16:03:00 Eastern Standard Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > Why would you not want to celebrate the end of slavery, unless you > miss > it? Even year people of my faith celebrate our release from > slavery in > Egypt some 3,000 years ago; surely African Americans should do the > same; > as should white Americans who can celebrate the end of their tragic > relationship to the sytem. > > Forgetting slavery would mean forgetting a central piece of American > history; forgetting the experience of 40% or more of the Virginia > population (if we include the masters and their families it would be > about 75%) up to 1865; it would be forgetting the cause of the > civil war > and the reason the Confederacy was created (Slavery was the > "cornerstone" of the Confederacy according Confederate Vice President > Alexander Stephens). > > Juneteenth is problematic for Va. although it is recognized as the day > slavery was finally over in Texas. I would think Emancipation Day > (Jan. > 1) or the day of the ratification of the 13th Amendment, would make > more > sense. > > Paul FInkelman > > Paul Finkelman > President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law > and Public Policy > Albany Law School > 80 New Scotland Avenue > Albany, New York 12208-3494 > > 518-445-3386 > [log in to unmask] >>>> [log in to unmask] 01/23/07 3:45 PM >>> > Slavery, and the end thereof, is something better forgotten than > celebrated. > > > > In a message dated 01/23/07 15:43:07 Eastern Standard Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > On Jan 23, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Yojsouth wrote: > >> Just another made up PC holiday like Kwanza. >> >> > > This is inaccurate. In Austin, Texas, "Juneteenth was first > celebrated > in 1867 under the direction of the Freedmen's Bureau, and became part > of the calendar of public events by 1872." More at > http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/JJ/lkj1.html, > including bibliography. > > Its observance in Virginia is another matter, of course, though there > were celebrations recorded widely when news of Emancipation reached > Virginia's slaves and, as Harold Forsythe notes, commemorative > celebrations followed for many years. > > Why not research the day when most who commemorated Emancipation in > Virginia chose to do so (April 9? January 1?), and encourage official > commemorations then? > > --Jurretta Heckscher > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the > instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the > instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the > instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the > instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html