With the unanimous support of the Senate and an overwhelming supermajority of the House, President Joe Biden signed Juneteenth into federal law 155 years after its inaugural celebration in Galveston, Texas. Yet, despite the bipartisan support for the holiday in the Beltway, some conservative critics have balked at it.

Candace Owens deemed the holiday “soooo lame” and accused Democrats of trying to “repackage segregation.” Michael Knowles claims that, unlike other existing federal holidays, Juneteenth lacks an “expression of gratitude” and that Democrats have tried to weaponize the celebration as evidence that, as Barack Obama put it, “there is still so much work to do.”