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In response to
"The board of the org putting it on is Black and this was their choice, so it's hard to argue "
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TWuG
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But also... it looks like the event location decided to go with a different style of Juneteenth celebration.
Posted by
Roger More (aka RogerMore)
May 28 '23, 12:13
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They told the guy who organised the previous two events would not be doing it this year - he's described as a community activist and is related to BLM.
They decided to work with the organizer of the competing event who seems to generally have a bigger vision for the event - but also he's former military, and so the events are raising money for veterans causes, he says that Juneteenth wouldn't even have happened without half a million Americans dying in the Civil War, etc... so it's obviously a very different perspective on what Juneteenth is about.
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