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lukas099

> The Black community began using the word Juneteenth for Jubilee Day early in the 1890s. [1]

I thought it was a neologism until I looked it up. Turns out, I'm just white.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth

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Cool! Seems about what I'd expect for an initially illiterate, persecuted minority's culture-specific holiday.

oddly specific

Just to be clear, Africans had writing, reading, mathematics, science, medicine, and more millennia before Europeans did. [1]

[1] https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/020113/great-achie...

Yes, good addition—and in case it wasn’t clear, I was talking about how most slaves weren’t allowed to learn to read or write.

It is an old neologism, but the style feels surprisingly modern, and/or AAVE is so dominant today that even (youngish?) white people would have coined this type of abbreviation today.

> on June 19, 1866… "Jubilee Day"

> The Black community began using the word Juneteenth for Jubilee Day early in the 1890s.

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