But black people weren't emancipated--and arguably still aren't. Civil rights acts of the '60s are more deserving of holidays.
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Yes, there's an argument there. But that Juneteenth is in some ways aspirational doesn't imo rule it out as a holiday.
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How convince the sizeable no. of non-racist Americans to become *anti-racist* Americans if a holiday says emancipation has already happened?
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Respect Juneteenth spirit but implies emancipation happened. Reality: rollback of Reconstruction, then Jim Crow, ghettos, now prison.
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