Juneteenth is Coming Again, Should We Celebrate it or Not?

What to the Slave Was Juneteenth?

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Frederick Douglass gave a famous speech, “What to the Slave Was the Fourth of July? In it he examined why celebrating it meant little to the slave who never shared in the blessings celebrated by the white man.

Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us…