Juneteenth Reminds Us That “Black Freedom” Is an Ongoing Project
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Juneteenth reminds us that freedom — however seemingly impossible or ineffable — is worth spending our lives pursuing.
The concept of complete freedom from the weight of racial oppression/anti-Blackness has always been a dream for Black people in the United States, where racist policing, vigilante violence, mass incarceration and acute economic oppression carry on the legacy of the racist system of slavery on which the nation’s economy was built. Indeed, in what was to become known as the United States...