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Why celebrating Juneteenth is more important now than ever

In many ways, Juneteenth represents how freedom and justice in the US has always been delayed for black people. The decades after the end of the war would see a wave of lynching, imprisonment, and Jim Crow laws take root. What followed was the disproportionate impact of mass incarceration, discriminatory housing policies, and a lack of economic investment. And now, as national attention remain focused on acts of police violence and various racial profiling incidents, it is clear that while progress has been made in black America’s 150 years out of bondage, considerable barriers continue to impede that progress.

Those barriers may remain until America truly begins to grapple with its history. “There are those in this society that still hold on to the idea that the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, it was about states’ rights or Northern aggression against slavery,” says Karlos Hill, a professor of African and African-American studies at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory. “Juneteenth is a moment where we step back and try to understand the Civil War through the eyes of enslaved people.”

 

Stephen Miller, the Trump aide behind the harshest immigration policies, is a descendent of asylum-seekers

 

can't wait for the onion article "Don Jr hides inside american flag hoping for a surprise hug"

 

Buddy, they won't even let me fuck it

 

Resident ska fan posting...

Get involved, internet rude boys: Fund a documentary on ska in the '90s

 

What's so frustrating is that people will see a picture or video of him hugging the flag and just know that he's a patriot and will blindly follow him. I wish someone would have burned him and that flag then and there.

 

lol jack, you absolute tool

 

dog post for your mental health. hope yall are taking care of yourself in midst of this shitty world!

 

good pure news for once
Gina Rodriguez Funds College Scholarship for Latinx Student With Emmy Money

 

Wikipedia Added US Border 'Detention Centers' to Its List of Concentration Camps

 

has the US ever actually done anything good with its power on the UNHRC?

 

Jason u there?

 

never was taking care of myself and likely never will, esp since no one cares. /alwaysnegative

 

ok i laughed.

-tumbleweed-

cautiously optimistic.

 

Is there a site somewhere with every politician's stance on ICE/the immigration debate?

 

banworthy, imo