

Juneteenth, Political Amnesia, and the Convenient Erasure of Who Freed Whom


Somewhere along the line, a moment as raw and unfiltered as Juneteenth got packaged up in neat little headlines, tossed onto social media with red, black, and green emojis, and stripped of the very uncomfortable roots it came from. And that’s the problem. We’ve become so allergic to facts that we don’t even ask basic questions anymore—like who actually freed the last slaves, and who was still holding