Happy Juneteenth to my Canadienne Brothers

dwaechte · 06-19-09, 09:12 AM

Took me like 5 minutes to figure out what the hell you were talking about, but the "Canadienne" gave it away. St Jean the Baptiste day, correct?

Cheers to Nicky and anyone else celebrating.

Bread · 06-19-09, 09:14 AM

I'm celebrating Juneteenth down at MLK Park tomorrow with my good friends Tad, Hunter, Chase and Mysterio.

Then we're playing Musical Pistolwhips.

Matt Rain · 06-19-09, 09:22 AM

St-Jean-Baptiste is on the 24th. I have no idea what today is, but thank you Prick, I'll get shitfaced regardless and blame it on ya.

Matt Rain · 06-19-09, 09:24 AM

So I learn that Juneteenth is an actual event. Sounded like a typical Prick neologism.

Happy Juneteenth to all. Give a hug to your local slave today.

dwaechte · 06-19-09, 09:27 AM

Well **** me lol.

Juneteenth is its own thing? Nothing like learning of a new holiday.

The Prick · 06-19-09, 09:41 AM

juneteenth wuz the day in 1865 that the US cavalry stormed quebec ta let the local slaves know they was free. this wuz of course like 2 years after the emancipation proclamation an 3 months after the war wuz over.

Mudcat · 06-19-09, 09:51 AM

I confess I hadn't heard of juneteenth before this. And everything I know about it now is contained in this thread.

I can't help but wonder why you would need to storm something to tell the slaves they are free. It seems like something you could just walk up to them and say without a whole lot of fuss and bother.

Obviously I am missing something but I can't imagine what. I have read the whole thread.

Bread · 06-19-09, 09:53 AM

My great great grandfather told me that when his favorite slave was emancipated, she immediately went and got her hurr deed.

Matt Rain · 06-19-09, 09:59 AM

Originally posted by The Prick

juneteenth wuz the day in 1865 that the US cavalry stormed quebec

Any source you can provide for that bit of history? I have never ever heard about that.

The Prick · 06-19-09, 10:02 AM

easy to see why you folks from up north aint proud of this deal. kinda kept usin the human machinery fer a coupla years after the repo notice came in the mail. descendants of the machinery still celebrate with red koolaid and bbqs.

Mudcat · 06-19-09, 10:35 AM

I wish there was a Festivus for the rest of us.

The Prick · 06-19-09, 11:07 AM

Originally posted by Mudcat

I wish there was a Festivus for the rest of us.

mudder this aint no matter to be joshin about. were talkin about freedom here. the legendary musical genius george michael prolly said it best in his ode ta juneteenth....

boys, aint nothin more important than a holiday dedicated to FREEDOM

Bread · 06-19-09, 11:09 AM

I love me some George Michael yes I do.

Mudcat · 06-19-09, 12:11 PM

I find it is always wise to check in with George Michael on matters of philosophy.

He totally changed my way of thinking about remaining asleep when you go-go.

sickler · 06-19-09, 12:36 PM

Prick, you're late.

Today is the last day of Juneteenth. Began on the thirteenth and ends on the nineteenth.

The Prick · 06-19-09, 12:43 PM

dammit sickler good catch! warms the cockels of my tired ol heart ta see a brotha from up north with sum sense of historical perspective

Bread · 06-19-09, 12:46 PM

Who could forget last year when a bunch of SBR regulars went down to da hood to party it up for Juneteenth?? Didn't turn out so well for Pavers.

Mudcat · 06-19-09, 12:50 PM

Hey is that me? No, no, on closer inspection - Tom Selleck.

Common mistake.

The Prick · 06-19-09, 12:55 PM

Originally posted by Mudcat

Hey is that me? No, no, on closer inspection - Tom Selleck.

Common mistake.

ask an ye shall receive mudder......

now can we get back ta focusin on the important stuff like abolishin slavery a few years late an paying back for all the atrocities an so forth?

sickler · 06-19-09, 01:00 PM

Last day of Juneteenth. Enjoy it while you can.

BBQ and cold ones.

Mudcat · 06-19-09, 01:12 PM

Originally posted by The Prick

now can we get back ta focusin on the important stuff like abolishin slavery a few years late an paying back for all the atrocities an so forth?

Well I don't know. To be completely serious, I know that many slaves who traveled on Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad ended up in Canada - which led me to believe we were ahead of the game in that respect.

Now that was Ontario, not Quebec. Maybe that is a key distinction here.

But that is pretty much the extent of my specific knowledge on that. If you are saying we have some sucking in our history then maybe it is so.

Maybe it is so.

The Prick · 06-19-09, 01:59 PM

could be a error on my part mudder, mebbe galveston is part of ontario? figgered it was a suburb of quebec

Mudcat · 06-19-09, 02:24 PM

I don't know the answer to that either. I know Glen Campbell who did the song Galveston is Canadian. I never heard about him having any slaves.

Anne Murray maybe.

Juneteenth - always a time for reflection.

The Prick · 06-19-09, 10:18 PM

I done juneteenthed myself inta a stupor