He did lean left in the end.

”Trans rights are human rights."

He said that, right?

A reformed professional asshole

Guess the racists and MAGAs can become better after all. Cost is cheap, results are immediate.

It's only "based on race" because slavery was based on race. It's the end of slavery, not "Black people day."

That's like saying July 4th is "all about the British."

imagine being pissed off about race

But it's for Black people, so he thinks he's not allowed to enjoy it. For him, it's like watching your neighbors having a fun pool party, but they didn't invite you, because you're such an asshole all the time.

lol for real - overt racism aside, who tf gets butthurt about having an additional holiday?

It's important to remind everyone that he was a piece of shit. Republicans are whitewashing his history.

Ol' Chuck hasn't had a garbage take on things in almost a year. Keep it up Charlie, you're doing great these days!

Yeah, it's 1-3 days before it and now that's how I'll remember when summer starts

We can't have summer until we remember the injustice of slavery and the freeing of a quarter million slaves in one of the last bastions of that deplorable practice

Oh, you're playing with fire trying to be pedantic like this. You're using the astronomical definition which starts on the solstice (some astronomical definitions treat the solstice as the center of the season, but starting at the solstice is the predominant one). Multiple countries use the meteorological definition which includes every day within three months (June, July, August in the Northern Hemisphere). The US has no overarching legal definition, but for example, US maritime law gives a batshit definition of summer as "April 1 to October 31" and winter as all the rest. And culturally in the US, summer tends to start at Memorial Day (e.g. this is when outdoor public pools usually start opening).

There's no "technically" here, or if there is, you're just as right as you are wrong. If anything, given a cultural holiday, it's arguably most "correct" to assess it using the cultural definition.

Kids are out of school. It's summer.

Some dead, inconsequential dude with really bad takes about pretty much everything.

Dead fascist. More to come.

So you didn't want him to end slavery

but his blood leaned right.