> Black AF takes place in California and the main character had a huge celebration with his entire extended family before it was even a federal holiday.
Did you just use the fact that Black characters in fictional media set in California celebrated the holiday to contradict an argument that actual Black people in coastal California do not?
I mean, the claim was factually wrong, but that's the worst counterargument imaginable.
no it is not factually wrong, because populations are a demographic system, not a single number. Arguing over "wrong on the Internet" is a waste of brain cells, and you claim my lived experience is "wrong" .. all the worst of online discourse.
so I talked to some people at random on the street, because I was bothered by this exchange. There are a range of responses and I think that the responses are very telling.
I wont do a detailed writeup here. This one is the one I want to hilite:
Two middle aged, very poor African-Americans walking down the street in daylight, the woman with a shopping cart and the man with clean but ordinary clothes. I say in a loud voice from many feet away "Is today a holiday of come kind?" The guy replies facing me "the Post Office is closed, I dont know" .. I said "something is on" .. "yeah" .. I get creative .. "but you have been to Texas right?" and he says in a stage whisper with his hand next to his mouth like he is shielding the statement "its Juneteenth" .. I said "nobody cares about that here, right?" He replies "its a DAY, just a day. that's all it is". This is consistent with what I was referring to.. this man did not want to talk about this, or say the name.
After congratulating myself silently because you know "someone was wrong on the Internet" .. I walked a a few blocks and I saw an upright, clean cut African-American man walking, dressed in a way that suggested he was a Church member or off-duty uniform services, also very middle-aged. This man had a clean white t-shirt with an elaborate, dare I say "European logo style" t-shirt that said Juneteenth in some formal typeset way. So I bother to write this long and too-personal reply because "someone on the Internet was wrong" ;-)
Black AF takes place in California and the main character had a huge celebration with his entire extended family before it was even a federal holiday.