We must remember Juneteenth & the free future it heralded 158 years ago. But we must not forget that white America, north & south, turned its back on that future & rules an Apartheid state for 100 more years. Nothing explains our current crises more than that. @AnotherSlavery
2/ The intransigent white voters who today obstruct both the most reasonable/humane policies on left & at same time defile honorable principles of conservatism were born in opposition to #Juneteenth & the hunger to resurrect slavery. @MichaelEDyson @ava @RobertRaben @EricHolder
3/ The conviction that the supposed best interests of white Americans is more important that harm done to any other people is at the heart of why #Juneteenth & black freedom were suppressed for 100 years, why mob murder was applauded to stop black voting... @eji_org @splcenter
4/4 ...why killing black kids is "regrettable but unavoidable" rather than outrageous. It is why white supremacists felt free to march and chant "Blood and Soil" last summer. And it is why there is still indifference by so many to children screaming "Mami" & 'Papá' at our border.
