Good morning. Mark is off today. This is John Smith filling in for him.

I don't want to be seen working on Juneteenth. Is it okay, Joe Barth? Are we allowed to work on June 10th?

Yes. You can work because the banks are open. Post offices are open today.

Oh, but it's a national holiday.

Why are we working today?

It doesn't kick in until next year?

Is it that kind of a deal?

Well, it only became a holiday yesterday.

It's kind of tough to put everybody on a holiday footing in 24 hours.

Yeah, let me just explain that Juneteenth is it's an important day in American

history. It should be taught in history classes. It should be studied, honored, celebrated

every year. But these pandering politicians, as Joe Biden said, when you hear him talk about

Juneteenth, he just wells up with tears, the emotion for him.

This Juneteenth means so much to him that for the 47 years he was in politics, he never

mentioned it.

He never heard about it until February.

But these pandering politicians, here's Mr. Byteenth represents not only the commemoration of slavery in America more than 150 years ago,

but the ongoing work that have to bring true equity and racial justice into American society, which we can do.

Yeah.

See the emotion?

As he read that off the index card, they handed him.

And when they first handed it to him, he said, June 10th, is this a misprint?

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