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Raucous Reunions [1]

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Date: 2025-06-19

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Today as I’m reading the AP’s contribution to Juneteenth, I literally stopped and stared at this phrasing for a couple of minutes.

I had to hunt down the article so I could make my own entry on my thoughts.

Do writers at the AP not know that raucous is a pejorative word? I struggle to believe that this is a case of mistaken definitions. As I commented on the entry on the front page, i don’t ever recall reading that word associated with any other celebration, ever.

The choice of wording is again indicative of how biases are ingrained in our language when it comes to different segments of our population. There’s never been a positive connotation linked with the word raucous, and yet here we are out of the blue using it to describe Black Americans celebrating their freedom.

well?

Maybe the Associated Press, should do an article describing the biases embedded in choice of words in media.

#ThePoet

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