Article originally appeared on www.westernjournal.com.
Look, as much as I think Juneteenth as a national holiday of dubious provenance pushed into the national consciousness simply because of white guilt during the summer of George Floyd, I would have given a pretty penny to attend the concert to commemorate the holiday at the White House on Monday — provided, of course, that I didn’t have to listen to anybody talk about politics.
For those of you who are unaware, Juneteenth — now a federal holiday — marks the day when Union Gen. Gordon Granger informed the slaves of Galveston, Texas, that all indentured persons in the Lone Star State were free on June 19, 1865. The holiday has become symbolic of the wider freedom of those kept as slaves in the South and their emancipation at the closure of the Civil War.
The holiday remains controversial not because we don’t want to celebrate the emancipation of slaves but because white Democrats love to use …
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