Did the diapered felon who rapes forget about Juneteenth?

Because in a blatantly horrible time, we're marking it despite our codified racism

Today, on the federal holiday that is Juneteenth (alternately known as Freedom Day), we mark the emancipation of African Americans, the moment that word finally arrived in Galveston, Texas, that the Civl War was over and slavery was, too.

The National Archives has a handwritten copy of General Order No. 3.

Juneteenth came, as the National Museum of African American History and Culture notes, more than two years after Pres. Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It is difficult to think about the atrocities that continued despite the change in law.

As Vann R. Newkirk writes in The Atlantic:

Five years ago, as the streets ran hot and the body of George Floyd lay cold, optimistic commentators believed that America was on the verge of a breakthrough in its eternal deliberation over the humanity of Black people. For a brief moment, perhaps, it seemed as if the “whirlwinds of revolt,” as Martin Luther King Jr. once prophesied, had finally shaken the foundations of the nation.

Except then we entered the era of Trump 2.0, and

There were, perhaps, other possible outcomes after 2020 [and the advent of Black Lives Matter], but they didn’t come to pass…When DEI emerged as a boogeyman on the far right, many corporate leaders and politicians started to slink away form previous commitments to equity.

Indeed. But we mark it, anyway, because history is not linear and if our government would not support us, we certainly know how to walk forward, anyway: