Pharrell Williams calls on companies, legislators to make Juneteenth a paid holiday

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Pharrell Williams, Ellen DeGeneres, Kenya Barris and Van Jones are working with Global Citizen and Teneo to help galvanize companies and state governments to recognize Juneteenth as a paid holiday.

Corporate executives and celebrities are rallying behind calls to make Juneteenth a national paid holiday.. It marks the date when a Union army general arrived in Galveston, Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Grammy-winning singer, television host Ellen DeGeneres, "Black-ish" creator Kenya Barris and CNN's Van Jones are working with Global Citizen and consulting firm Teneo to help galvanize companies and state governments to recognize Juneteenth as a paid holiday.

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Pharrell So he’s pro capitalism? I’m so confused

Pharrell This is a gesture, just like talk it’s cheap

Pharrell Thats fine if companies want to recognize a day nobody had even heard about a few weeks ago. I’m all for recognizing the abolishment of slavery, but you really lose me and other Americans when you say tax payers owe reparations to others due to skin pigmentation. GTFO!

Pharrell Screw Juneteenth!

Pharrell fakenews leftistpropaganda WalkAwayFromDemocrats

Pharrell Phuck this.

Pharrell Next holiday should be voting day.

Pharrell Do the 40 million unemployed americans get to collect that paid holiday,?

Pharrell Until you accept responsibility for who you are is the result of your own choices in Life, you are not free.

Pharrell Agreed make it paid National Holiday reasonable people would agree Pharrell

Pharrell He should put his money where his mouth is...

Pharrell Holidays don’t matter to the 40 million unemployed

Pharrell No one takes Pharrell serious.. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Pharrell Funny why a holiday now ? Because you can see how you can make yourself richer by pretending you care I call BS

Pharrell People are out of work fool, everyday is an unpaid holiday.

Pharrell “The day we were freed”. When was Pharrell or ANY other living human being freed from slavery

Pharrell How convenient that before this year no one have a solitary fuck about 'Juneteenth' but now it needs to be a holiday This leftist shit is so apparent it hurts

Pharrell Just curious why this wasn't addressed during the 8 years of Obama?

Pharrell While young Black men murder BLACK CHILDREN on a weekly basis, this clown wants a holiday? Mekhi James, age 3 Murdered by yet ANOTHER BLACK CHILD cut down and he talks this nonsense?

Pharrell This may be the dumbest thing ever

Pharrell Oh I don't think so

Pharrell Looking forward to the time when the you are the only people left in NYC

Pharrell Lol ppl are losing jobs left and right. Companies are shutting down and this clown is asking for holiday pay

Pharrell Pharrell is a practicing Satanist with the rest of his Hollywoodpedophile friends. Black are ppl who listen to trash like him are doing it wrong

Pharrell yes!

Pharrell DErP

Pharrell Is Pharrell going to pay for it? Didn't think so.

Pharrell 40 million people not working and this is what he pounds the table for?

Pharrell This interview was very strange... CNBC

Pharrell Summing up this movement for everyone real quick: “Gimme money, gimme money, gimme money”

Pharrell Be sure to vote for Jungle Joe!

WallStMostWantd Pharrell Join the movement at as we call on CollegeBoard APforStudents AP_Trevor to create AP courses on Black history and culture: AP African Civilizations and AP African American History. Please sign and share! BlackHistoryMatters BlackLivesMatter

Pharrell LOL Let HIM pay for it then! Idiot.

Pharrell I wonder how Pharrell celebrated Juneteenth last year 🤔

Pharrell I said this first. I think.

Pharrell Probably would be best if paid holidays were instead for national voting.

Pharrell Slavery legally ended in the US December 6, 1865

Pharrell When the Fourth of July Was a Black Holiday

Pharrell Really - please show how he celebrated the last 5 years

Pharrell Slaves and Memorial Day | Watch American Experience Online

Pharrell What does that do? Another day off for lazy americans, yay

Pharrell Who dat?

Well Shit! Blackpink broke Youtube record (most viewed in 24 hours) with their new song on Friday. We should also make that a paid Holiday! Now, how you like that?

While were at it, lets add election day as well.

Why don't you pay everyones salary. Why isn't the day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed not a 'holiday'? Because Juneteenth was the 'last date' that slaves were Fred? This was a Texas specific event, and making it a holiday is absurd. Why not VE, VJ Day, Kristallnacht etc

I got a buck that says a month ago he had no idea what Juneteenth is!

Never existed until this year. Wasn't even on digital calendars until this year. But I can always use another paid day off from work.

Why not just make it one continuous holiday from Juneteenth through July 4?

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