Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?
…ast being “free-ish.” That, I believe, is at the root of the Juneteenth conundrum; the difficulty of seeing and accepting Black Joy, not Black Excellence, not Black Girl Magic, or any other formulation of Blackness that requires Black folks to exhibit superhuman levels of suffering or perseverance in the face of oppression. Simply the human emotion of joy. So, when will Juneteenth be officially a part of the American consciousness? When I greet a…
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