The African America artist Says’’ Make Juneteenth a Paid public Holiday saying “it is over due” in an interview with the popular show host Jimmy.
He appeared, Live on Thursday 18th of June and spoke about how he is working hard to make Juneteenth an official paid public holiday across the the whole of America.
Pharrell William, 47-year-old spoke about his recent trip to his home state of Virginia to advocate for change with the Governor of Virginia: Ralph Northam.
He said: I just think it’s high time that we make Juneteenth a public paid holiday. if we’re going to think about what independence and what freedom really looks like, ours was never really acknowledged…I mean, yeah, there’s 47 states that observe it, but that’s not a paid holiday. We deserve a paid holiday.”
He also spoke on his meeting the the Governor;
I called him and I just said, ‘Man, I just feel like this is important—not only for your own legacy but for the legacy of Virginia. And if you would be willing to officiate this and make this a paid holiday, I will travel for the first time out of my house. Because my wife is not playing no games with this COVID-19. She’s not but I mean, as you know, we have 600 children. So, we can’t afford to play any games,But this is serious because this is for not only me, but this is for, like, my ancestors that absolutely came through on the hull of a ship in Virginia, you know, 400 years ago—over 401 years ago. So, for me, this was incredibly,symbolic and it’s necessary.”
He told the host.
