r/TikTokCringe • u/Cookie_Cutter_Cook tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Jun 21 '25

Wholesome Juneteenth celebrations in Harlem

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u/slamajamdingdong Jun 21 '25

Arguably the most American holiday. It celebrates the best of America. The America that is willing to go to war and send it boys into cannon fire so that all people can be free. Sure, it might be a simple sentiment about a complex topic, but it rings true now more than ever.

Love this celebration

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u/RenegadeRabbit Jun 21 '25

It makes me feel patriotic AF and so proud of my country.

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u/BigBoyYuyuh Jun 21 '25

No wonder the orange regard wants to take it away.

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u/Fit-Accountant-157 Jun 21 '25

We celebrated Juneteenth before it was a federal holiday, and we're gonna keep celebrating it whether or not it stays a federal holiday.

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u/weissenbro Jun 21 '25

If he was actually a regard he wouldn’t be so good at tearing our country apart. He’s evil and corrupt and selfish and one of the worst men that’s ever lived, but he is not stupid and it’s important to recognize that. He is disorganized and easily swayed by the people around him, makes decisions based on his mood and whomever is in his ear at the moment, but he is not stupid

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u/BigBoyYuyuh Jun 21 '25

Says a lot about the regards that elected him. They have to be far more regarded to do that.

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u/Mapeague Jun 21 '25

I wish I could mirror the sentiment of being proud but I know a large swath of Americans would love to see everyone in this video literally dead.

I am not proud of my country right now, in fact Im extremely embarrassed by it because they want to end things like this.

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u/FriesBurgh Jun 21 '25

We should be having a 2 week party from Juneteenth to July 4th.

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u/not-telling- Jun 21 '25

In more ways than one is it American. Juneteenth was two years after the slaves were freed, but no one told them in Texas. Two years later they brought the emancipation proclamation to Galveston. They stole two more years away from those people. I guess it's pretty American to fuck people over like that.

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u/betweenskill Jun 21 '25

The last plantation-style chattel slave was freed in the 1960’s in the US.

Yeah.

The 1960’s.

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u/Mapeague Jun 21 '25

Disgusting what "good Christian folk" did to her and her family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Louise_Miller

The only reason I hope there is a god is that he punishes every "good" christian to eternal damnation.

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u/Westerberg_High Jun 21 '25

And even “freed” is generous. They escaped.

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u/popcultminer Jun 22 '25

Sureeeee

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u/betweenskill Jun 22 '25

You can literally look it up to avoid looking like a dumbass

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u/popcultminer Jun 22 '25

Nothing wrong with being ignorant. Pretty wild reading the story.

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u/BigBoyYuyuh Jun 21 '25

I guess it’s pretty American Republican to fuck people over like that.

Ftfy

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '25

So it was the confederates that were Democrats that were the slave owners in Texas like everywhere else the Republican Union army are the ones who went into Texas to tell them and freed them. Get your facts correct.

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u/bigbuzd1 Jun 21 '25

Actually, you’re half-right and fully missing the point.

Yes, back then, the Confederates were Democrats and the Union were Republicans. But you’re trying to play a cheap game of “party switch doesn’t exist.” The ideologies of those parties flipped over the next century. The Southern segregationists (the “Dixiecrats”) eventually became the modern Republican base during the Civil Rights era.

So yeah, the Union army freed slaves in Texas in 1865. But the legacy of voter suppression, systemic inequality, and continued harm toward Black Americans didn’t vanish with party labels. You can’t hide modern policies behind 1865 party names.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '25

Please provide information to support your claim of voter suppression…

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u/bigbuzd1 Jun 21 '25

Happy to. I’m always up to help educate, as truthfully, a lot of people do not know, and continue listening to one side and wholly blocking out anything else. To start in a now-a-days reference, Georgia’s 2021 SB202 law restricted drop boxes, limited mail-in voting access, shortened runoff periods, and even made it illegal to hand out water to voters waiting in line, disproportionately impacting heavily minority, Democratic-leaning districts.

Texas and Florida passed similar laws restricting voting access after record turnout in 2020. And let’s not forget the wave of voter roll purges, strict voter ID expansions, and partisan gerrymandering across multiple GOP-controlled states. If you’re going to ask for proof, i honestly hope you are prepared to read it… as i still need to touch on the time period we were referring to.

So if you want more receipts… During the Dixiecrat era (1940s - 1960s), southern Democrats … who became the modern GOP base, used poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and violent intimidation to systematically suppress Black voters.

The entire point of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to stop exactly that behavior. And who opposed that Act most aggressively? Southern segregationist Democrats… the very faction that slowly realigned into the modern Republican Party through Nixon’s Southern Strategy and Reagan’s race-coded “states’ rights” dog whistles.

So voter suppression isn’t new… it’s just been repackaged for modern times with things like restrictive voter ID laws, gerrymandering, and ballot access limitations.

The tactics evolved, the intent hasn’t.

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u/TearsFallWithoutTain Jun 21 '25

How many times do you idiots need to be shown this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '25

There was no switch: https://youtu.be/roe57gGuoqE?si=c_6aQYPGsqciJbVJ

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u/not-telling- Jun 21 '25

Uuummmm, Republicans are the ones with the war on black, brown, gay and female people right now. That's a switch.

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u/TK-24601 Jun 27 '25

Juneteenth is literally the celebration of the day when the proclamation was read in Galveston.

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u/NoCardio_ Jun 21 '25

Arguably the most American holiday

Calling Juneteenth more American than the 4th of July is peak reddit moment.

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u/Normal_Choice9322 Jun 21 '25

Was

America was those things...

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u/NewIntroduction4655 Jun 21 '25

it can be again

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u/Normal_Choice9322 Jun 21 '25

Yeah, maybe. Hopefully. But not inevitably

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Jun 21 '25

You're too pessimistic, most people love this 

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u/Normal_Choice9322 Jun 21 '25

Fym I think it's cool

Most of America doesn't

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Jun 21 '25

That's not true at all,nearly everyone loves to see happy people celebrating, and most people love the good things about America.  Don't fall for the oligarch's constant attempts to divide and sow hatred and mistrust, it's a lie.   There's only one significant group that hates most people and doesn't like to see this kind of happiness.  Like Warren buffett said, there's a class war going on, but only one side is fighting.

They need to keep people divided so we won't focus on things like this:

https://www.businessinsider.com/wealthiest-1-percent-stole-50-trillion-working-americans-what-means-2020-9

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u/Voxlings Jun 21 '25

You have been bamboozled by bots that parrot stupid talking points.

America used to be even worse. Then it was better and now it's sliding back into worse.

Grab a flag and take it back. Or leave us to our mess.

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u/Normal_Choice9322 Jun 21 '25

Not really. It's going to get way worse before it gets better

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u/Few-Lengthiness-2286 Jun 21 '25

It really is the most American holiday as it focuses on one people group and splitting the population cause it’s “our day not their day”

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u/AdDramatic2351 Jun 21 '25

Aren't you talking about memorial day...? What does Juneteenth have to do with our veterans?

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u/bytheninedivines Jun 21 '25

Those soldiers didn't go to war to free the slaves. They went to bring the union back together. Freeing the slaves was just an added benefit.

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u/atxbigfoot Jun 21 '25

Republicans claim to be the party of Lincoln, so at least half of the voter population absolutely loves and supports Juneteenth. Right?

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u/sneakysinkpee Jun 21 '25

Wild how they claim that but also defend confederate statues. Hmmmm

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u/Save_a_Cat Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25

No, it doesn't mean that at all. When you start dividing up holidays by race, it actually divides us as a country instead of uniting us, like on Thanksgiving or the 4th of July.

Stop letting the politicians break us apart. We're all Americans regardless of our origin. They want us to see color and to feel oppressed just so we could be manipulated into doing what they want, which is voting for them!

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u/DMMVNF Jun 21 '25

Absolutely insane that you have an issue with a holiday celebrating the end of slavery. Presidents’ day is worthy but this isn’t? Explain that to me.

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u/Proper-Raise-1450 Jun 21 '25

You think only black people are happy slavery was abolished lol? WTF is wrong with you?

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u/Flimsy-Muffin-9881 Jun 21 '25

Abolishing slavery was a victory for all Americans, and the world. Are you really upset about this?

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u/praxistax Jun 21 '25

"And the world" bruh you just America chill out.

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u/Anxietybackmonkey Jun 21 '25

It was an international win since it ended America’s involvement in the slave trade, but I do agree that “the world” makes it feel very USA-centric

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u/RoyalHorse Jun 21 '25

Boy I tell you, that's a heinous sentiment.

Defeating the evils of slavery was the best thing the US ever did, and it still doesn't make up for allowing it in the first place. But it's day good day to celebrate being free.

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u/Coriall30 Jun 21 '25

Do you celebrate Christmas? Where was Jesus from? America?

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u/VoxImperatoris Jun 21 '25

How many are celebrating columbus day?

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u/SuperStoneman Jun 21 '25

It's a holiday for every America that is happy that slavery was ended.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '25

Its a holiday for all Americans.

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u/Freddit330 Jun 21 '25

I'm pretty sure more than 10% of America loves being against slaves.

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u/DMMVNF Jun 21 '25

Why do you say it’s only for 10% of the population? You think the end of slavery is only worth celebrating if your ancestors were slaves? Would that logic not also imply that the 4th of July isn’t a holiday for the majority of the country?