On Food, Mattress Sales, and Juneteenth

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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It's the second year that Juneteenth has been a federal holiday — which means it's getting the full summer holiday treatment: sales on appliances, branded merchandise, and for some, a day off of work. But on this episode, we're talking about the origin of the holiday — and the traditions that keep its history alive for Black folks around the country.

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0:00.0	What's good y'all, I'm Gene Demby.
0:01.5	And I'm Karen Gricksby-Bates.
0:03.4	And this is Coatswitch.
0:05.0	From MPR.
0:06.2	And I'm sorry if I sound a little...
0:08.5	Flimmy?
0:09.6	Yeah, a little, you know what I mean?
0:10.6	Sound a little...
0:11.7	I kind of like it, but I don't like the way it feels
0:13.4	like the way it sounds. Anyway, I got sick
0:16.0	along with the rest of my household.
0:17.1	Just in time for us to have to disembod our cells
0:19.4	from all the Juneteenth situations
0:21.7	all the Juneteenth cookouts.
0:23.5	This, of course, is the second year
0:25.5	Juneteenth is being observed as a federal holiday.
0:28.1	So, you know, it's about to become part of the American summer calendar.
0:31.2	Like Memorial Day, on July 4th and Labor Day,
0:34.3	which probably means Karen that Juneteenth is on its way
0:36.4	to having, you know, sales named after it.
0:38.8	You've already seen some minor controversies
0:40.9	about people missing the point of Juneteenth
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