Juneteenth

At long last, a holiday. Not in the sense that it is wholy good. The day the last slave in the United States knew that slavery had ended is certainly worth celebrating and going big. But much like other Federal holidays in the United States, there is another side to the coin. We celebrate the end of slavery, but we then acknowledge that we as a nation enslaved people all the way into the 19th century. And here in the 21st century our Congress cannot wholely agree that lynching should be outlawed. That the unequal treatment of brown and black people is going on everyday and needs to be addressed, each and every day, that suppressing the vote is unfair, and it is unequally affecting people and communities of color. Our greatest hope as a people and as a nation is the young. May they lift us up and make us the best that we can be. In the meantime, celebrate the teeny tiny steps forward as they happen.