My invective is not for you, it's for people who misappropriate and twist others' words. I'm not being defensive, and you don't need to be either. Both sources I recommended were not aligned with my bias because I'm not here to just confirm my biases.

> “Call me racist”

I say this because all the "antiracist" rhetoric, which Juneteenth was co-opted to support, is commonly used to call people racist when they aren't. I'm not suggesting you're doing that.

> my family has observed it for decades

This is honestly surprising to me, always glad to learn something new. I assumed Juneteenth was basically manufactured for the purposes of the democrats' bad-faith political agenda our of a very obscure thing.

But it still poses a problem, because now that the holiday has been co-opted, how can you celebrate it without affirming something you deny (I *think*, from what you said that you're not affirming "antiracism")? In many cases I suppose you can just not care, the political winds will shift and the bad-faith actors will forget and you can have your holiday back. And I suppose people like me who see the co-option and not the original thing don't help.