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FIFY.

Even that probably isn't accurate, I imagine a lot of Black folks up there did. I've seen Black people in Atlanta, Houston, and Birmingham celebrate it for decades.

 

When I began working as a photographer at a smaller southeast Kansas Gannett paper in the early 80s, we covered Juneteenth celebrations.

I think that one of the reasons Juneteenth was “virtually unknown to the majority of the country” is because the celebrations have been less alcohol-fueled than niche cultural holidays such as St. Patrick’s Day or Cinco de Mayo. Give white folks an excuse to get drunk and they’ll be all in.

 

Apropos of nothing in particular, this paragraph:

"But the real con that drove The Apprentice is far older than television. The “pig in the poke” comes from an idiom dating to 1555: “I’ll never buy a pig in a poke / There’s many a foul pig in a fair cloak.” It refers to the time-honored scam of selling a suckling pig at market but handing over a bag (the poke) to the purchaser, who never looks inside it. Eventually, he discovers he’s purchased something quite different."

This is the origin of two different proverbs. "Don't buy a pig in a poke", as above, a poke being a burlap bag or something similar, meaning don't purchase something without examining it. See also, "Don't let the cat out of the bag", as often instead of buying a suckling pig in a bag - "Don't look inside, if it gets out you'll never catch it" the bag usually contained a stray cat.

 

Yeah, that's kinda the point of a "Fixed It For You" post.

 

Although I had not seen it yet, Dixie's "Nobody you know did" post following yours, with several likes, means that I'm not the only one who read it that way.

Guys, Ragu didn't say what was in the FIFY post, I did.

 

No, the first reaction from the Trump camp is that it's fake. Which also is par for the course. Apparently there are tapes. But they'll say those were faked also. I guess the guy went out and hired Frank Caliendo to imitate Trump.

 

Big if true.

 

To put it another way, I'm not accusing Ragu of some sort of racism. I'm speculating on a lack of exposure/awareness. I'm sure that there are plenty of Black people up North who don't celebrate or care about Juneteenth. I'm equally certain that there are a number of them who do.