Karamo Brown attends The Los Angeles LGBT Center Gala at Fairmont Century Plaza on April 22, 2023 in Los Angeles, California Source: Monica Schipper/Getty Images

'Queer Eye' Culture Maven Karamo Brown Shares How He Witnessed Unbelievable Juneteenth Cluelessness

Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 2 MIN.

"Queer Eye" star Karamo Brown took to Instagram Stories to share a story of the "f***ery" he says he saw happening at the gym around the Juneteenth holiday.

"I'm at this gym and they were giving out cookies to people for Juneteenth," the culture maven said in a video posed on the holiday, June 19, Entertainment Weekly reported.

"I thought that was crazy already," Brown went on to say, "but I literally sat and watched them give out cookies to white people for Juneteenth and skipped over every Black person, including myself. I swear to God."

The head-scratching blunder came on the very day that celebrates the day on June 19, 1865, when the defeated Confederate states were ordered to release their slaves at the end of the Civil War.

President Joe Biden signed legislation that made Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2017, 21 years after congressional lawmakers first introduced a bill for the holiday's creation.

"Now, I didn't want the cookie, but I thought it was crazy as fuck that you are literally giving out cookies on Juneteenth, to celebrate Juneteenth, and you skipped over every Black person that walked by you," Brown continued his narration in the Instagram Stories post, which is no longer available. "So when I asked the girl she was like, 'Huh?' Huh? What do you mean?' And I was like, 'Girl, bye'."

An exasperated Brown went on to add, "That's the fuckery of this holiday," EW relayed.

"I don't think most white people understand what the fuck is going on today," the out celebrity said, noting that what he said he had seen at the gym was "a clear example."


by Kilian Melloy , EDGE Staff Reporter

Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.

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