Juneteenth

Quote: Gandler

I think I get it pretty well. Some company towns suck. Some sucked a lot and were miserable. It is still empirically not slavery.

Clarification: No company towns inside the U.S. post civil war were. I am sure you can cite some towns in some other countries in the late 1800s-nid 1900s that technically had slaves. But, speaking in terms of U.S. towns, no.

I am sure many had rough and dangerous lives. I am sure it was miserable. I am also sure it was not slavery. I am also sure in most cases it was better than not having a job...

No you don’t get it. It was just bondage by another name. You don’t get it same as you do not get that blacks sold their people to slavers. And that it was white Europeans who mostly ended slavery during the scramble for Africa.

You are thinking of company towns now not how they were then. I will say it a second time. You owned nothing. You got paid in company script that was only good at the company store. Leaving was de facto impossible because you had no actual money. Goons kept the people in line. You might have had to bring your wife or daughter to “entertain” the foreman to keep working.

It was barely existing.

Is Juneteenth any more ridiculous of a holiday than Christmas?

Why would the biggest national holiday of the year be premised on celebrating the birth of a religious figure, given the separation of church and state?

Why not celebrate the birth or Buddha, or Mohammad?

Just a mind fuck by the christian majority.

Bah, humbug...