More than 100 residents gathered at Rolling Ridge Apartments on Sunday to celebrate Juneteenth, which was recently named a federal holiday. But some attendees noted the Juneteenth federal holiday was largely a symbolic gesture in the wake of numerous states looking to ban critical race theory in classrooms. Critical race theory is a decades-old academic concept examining how race and racism shaped U.S. history, and how laws and systems today perpetuate racism. "It's like a huge oxymoron — a slap in the face almost," said Broderick Flannigan, one of the organizers of Sunday's celebration, which was delayed a week because of rain. "They're scared of us learning that history because that will change the landscape in a way, and people will become more aware of why things are the way they are."