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I've been working for 20+ years and I'd never heard of it until a couple years ago. I don't have a problem with it, celebrating stuff is cool, but it does seem to have come out of nowhere when it became a political issue. Maybe it was a regional thing before that.
It became a federal holiday in 2021
Yeah that was when I first heard of it. I researched it at the time and saw that it has been around for a long time but I had never heard of it before that and I'd consider myself to be pretty well read on history in general. Obviously enough people were aware of it to push for a holiday so maybe it's just the part of the country I'm from it wasn't celebrated much idk.