Juneteenth’s government recognition needs to come along with real action.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi holds a bill enrollment signing ceremony for the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act as members of the Congressional Black Caucus hold the bill on June 17, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” This is the question that formerly enslaved abolitionist Frederick Douglass posed in athat would later become one of his most famous works.
: “I wonder how you would feel if people erroneously and arrogantly used your father to justify them being against what he was assassinated for being about.”Given the ways that Dr. King’s lifework and MLK Day have been distorted, it seems valid to fear that making Juneteenth a federal holiday has the potential to diminish its significance, instead of generating further inquiry into the history of American slavery and emancipation.
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