Idaho library board cancels Juneteenth

[jmowreader]

https://cdapress.com/news/2024/mar/23/CLN-drops-Juneteenth-as-recognized-holiday/

(Standard disclosure: this is from the newspaper I work for, and I have known the reporter who wrote this for...oh, probably ten years. She's awesome.)

HAYDEN — The Community Library Network will no longer observe Juneteenth, the state and federally recognized holiday that marks the end of slavery in the United States.

Chair Rachelle Ottosen, Vice Chair Tom Hanley and Trustee Tim Plass voted in favor of dropping Juneteenth as the board updated the holiday section of the network's personnel policy Thursday during a regular meeting at the Hayden Library. Juneteenth, or June 19, was added to the network's calendar last year following President Joe Biden's 2021 signing of a bill passed by Congress to reserve the day as a federal holiday.

The motion, which traded the Juneteenth holiday for a day off the day after Thanksgiving, was opposed by Trustees Vanessa Robinson and Katie Blank and criticized by members of the public as being racially motivated.

Just so you know, Tom Hanley and Tim Plass were foisted upon us all by Brent Regan's Kootenai County Republican Central Committee. They ran for office on the platform that the libraries up here are just FULL of porn and they're gonna get all of it out of there. So far they've been entirely successful in eradicating the porn from the library, but since there wasn't any in the first place they didn't have far to travel to reach that goal.

[WarGamer]

1. I love Idaho... family friends in Driggs.

We hung out with them on their ranch and drove over the mountain into Jackson a few years ago

[jmowreader]

4. Driggs is not bad

What's really nice is Sandpoint, which until the American Redoubt shit hit was a left-wing hippie commune.

[WarGamer]

8. Seemed really nice... lots of upper income folks...

But more of what I'd assume are upper income educated progressive folks.

[malaise]

2. Because freedom from slavery must never

be celebrated

Get thee to the greatest page for visibility

[underpants]

3. A state with a fake name.

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/208/get-to-know-how-idaho-got-its-name/277-96b47caf-48f9-4efb-8c86-569bdb04fa85

[jmowreader]

5. Well, yeah, but we like it

[Karadeniz]

6. Even if everyone there is white, theyre missing an opportunity to teach empathy

[SARose]

7. Galveston, Tx and Juneteenth

History of Juneteenth Seen and Felt Through Galveston

Snip

It was here on June 19, 1865, that Union Army General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived to formally inform the enslaved Black and African American people of Galveston and Texas - about a quarter of a million people - that the Emancipation Proclamation had freed them.

The order read:

“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.”

Snip

If you are ever in Galveston, Tx on June 19th you will hear the proclamation read again. It is very moving.