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Just found out Juneteenth (6/19) is a State Holiday in Virginia...State -- Tuckahokie 06/11/2021 2:09PM Happy Holiday. ** -- Shenhoo 06/11/2021 8:40PM I have no problem with celebrating it, but last day of school for HCPS was -- Mad Bowl Hoo 06/11/2021 6:07PM Ridiculous. -- Joey Wahoo 06/11/2021 4:17PM Say darkie have you seen da massa, wif da mustache on his face? -- Lazarus 06/11/2021 5:33PM When my family moved to Va in '73 we went to a county with one public -- 81_Hokie 06/11/2021 6:07PM While all that's true, I'm not sure it is important with regard to the -- southdenverhoo 06/11/2021 5:28PM I think it's very important and we've missed a chance to get it right. -- Joey Wahoo 06/11/2021 6:47PM Have you asked a real live black person about it? Or are you just -- HooAskedYou 06/11/2021 7:41PM Where did you get this part? I've never heard it before. -- southdenverhoo 06/11/2021 7:10PM I was being facetious -- Joey Wahoo 06/11/2021 7:15PM I'd have to see that, and from a reliable, credible source to believe it. -- southdenverhoo 06/11/2021 8:03PM The darkies were too lazy and trifling to enunciate June 19th ** -- Hoo TV 06/11/2021 8:35PM Agree with that it's a symbol and should be a national date. -- hoodeyo 06/11/2021 6:35PM Yep. I remember getting used to the idea that holidays got moved to Monday ** -- 81_Hokie 06/11/2021 6:09PM Ya but Christmas was thought up by white people. Black people came up with -- Lazarus 06/11/2021 5:37PM April 2nd or 9th would be more appropriate** -- HokieDan95 06/11/2021 5:09PM You should tell all your black friends. ** -- 111Balz 06/12/2021 06:52AM Good choices. The 9th would have the added benefit of being the date... -- Joey Wahoo 06/11/2021 7:40PM Second Tueday in November, and make it a Federal Holiday ** -- 81_Hokie 06/12/2021 11:12AM I agree with you. It is a Texas event. -- DanTheFan 06/11/2021 5:07PM What date would you suggest? January 1 is kinda taken. The holiday deserves -- SixerHoo 06/11/2021 4:56PM It's all symbolic anyway. Just (coincidentally) make it the same as -- Hoo TV 06/11/2021 5:41PM June 19 seems as good as any if it is entirely appropriate to recognize.... -- Chuck Taylor 06/11/2021 5:04PM Hoo says you can't still learn on the Box. I just did. ** -- Hoodafan 06/11/2021 4:29PM One can learn here and anywhere is one’s mind is open -- 111Balz 06/12/2021 06:54AM Shoot you get schooled here about once a week, you just don't realize it. -- southdenverhoo 06/11/2021 5:32PM You are discussing changing of opinions, which is a rare occurrence around -- Hoodafan 06/11/2021 6:16PM No you are presented facts that you choose to ignore -- 111Balz 06/12/2021 06:56AM I've only had an opinion changed by a Soapbox poster once and... -- Joey Wahoo 06/11/2021 6:52PM Your post on here made me rethink my world view on deterministic vs free -- JohnHoo2 06/12/2021 5:04PM Those values and that philosophy are pretty stellar, but more stellar is -- southdenverhoo 06/12/2021 08:36AM Dang, bro.... -- Joey Wahoo 06/12/2021 10:55AM The space time continuum just reversed itself. ** -- DTsBicep 06/11/2021 5:05PM The Apocalypse is upon us! ** -- WaxHoo 06/11/2021 4:46PM Dogs and cats living together! ** -- SixerHoo 06/11/2021 4:58PM You three HDSers should try it sometime. :-) ** -- Hoodafan 06/11/2021 5:20PM HDSer? ** -- SixerHoo 06/11/2021 5:28PM Joey...I have read conflicting dates. Do you know what day the -- Tuckahokie 06/11/2021 4:24PM Very interesting. -- Joey Wahoo 06/11/2021 4:31PM January 1 is already a holiday :>) ** -- Tuckahokie 06/11/2021 4:35PM So we should stick to celebrating Jesus's birthday on the Roman Saturnalia -- WahooRQ 06/11/2021 4:24PM How is June 19th "a logical date associated" with emancipation and why... -- Joey Wahoo 06/11/2021 4:29PM Because it's commonly known as Emancipation Day and increasingly -- WahooRQ 06/11/2021 4:57PM Just like Kwanzaa -- FrankGallagher 06/11/2021 4:36PM "Just a bunch of made up shit." Aren't most holidays??** -- Seattle .Hoo 06/11/2021 5:23PM There is some terrific irony in this post, for obvious reasons. ** -- WahooRQ 06/11/2021 5:15PM What did Columbus accomplish, precisely?** -- WaxHoo 06/11/2021 4:48PM What did St Patrick do in Virginia? St Valentine? Why do we celebrate -- 81_Hokie 06/11/2021 5:15PM Again, white people holidays v black people holidays. ** -- Lazarus 06/11/2021 5:41PM Oh no. Halloween is "Harvest Festival." :D ** -- Seattle .Hoo 06/11/2021 5:25PM Perhaps you can go on a quick trip to Israel again. ** -- Blah 06/11/2021 2:55PM No such thing...that flight is a mutha' ** -- Tuckahokie 06/11/2021 3:32PM I would like to go once. If you don't mind me asking ... -- Blah 06/11/2021 3:40PM The only advice I have, is keep your head on a swivel if you go -- VaTechie 06/11/2021 7:23PM I assume it was to see Akil Mitchell play ** -- WahooMatt05 06/11/2021 3:58PM He's a Hokie. It might have been for Sylven Landesberg. :) ** -- Blah 06/11/2021 3:59PM Funny you mention that...we were in the Tel Aviv airport and there was an -- Tuckahokie 06/11/2021 4:04PM True that. I remember running into one of the UVa teams in an airport when -- SixerHoo 06/11/2021 4:11PM I remember getting in an elevator with all dressed up -- VaTechie 06/11/2021 7:25PM Tel Aviv has one of the better clubs in the world outside of the NBA. -- Blah 06/11/2021 4:09PM It was sort of a Christian retreat...mostly historical stuff with plenty of -- Tuckahokie 06/11/2021 3:49PM Cool. I hope you found it spiritual, educational, and relaxing. -- Blah 06/11/2021 3:58PM We all? About half the world is NOT Christian, Muslim or Jewish -- 81_Hokie 06/11/2021 4:39PM Clunky sentence. I thought I was connecting "we all" to ... -- Blah 06/11/2021 5:05PM Relevance? ** -- Hoodafan 06/11/2021 2:58PM Link? ** -- Blah 06/11/2021 3:00PM No problem -- Hoodafan 06/11/2021 3:02PM And relevance ... -- Blah 06/11/2021 3:05PM How is that relevant to his getting a state job again? Oh, you didn't read -- Hoodafan 06/11/2021 3:08PM Poor Hooda is having a meltdown. He's talking about "holiday" ... -- Blah 06/11/2021 3:13PM LOL! ** -- Hoodafan 06/11/2021 3:17PM You would have to get one of the state jobs not limited to 29 hrs. -- Hoodafan 06/11/2021 2:43PM Are you for increasing the cost of government or firing all the -- SixerHoo 06/11/2021 4:00PM I'm for thinking it's pretty F'd that the state takes active steps to avoid -- Hoodafan 06/11/2021 4:20PM The state is following its own rules. Private employers don’t have to -- SixerHoo 06/11/2021 4:30PM Agree. I just find it even more unsavory when it's the state, that passes -- Hoodafan 06/11/2021 4:39PM