On #Juneteenth, today, America marks the emancipation of Black people over 150 years ago—a hard-fought liberation that was historic and transformative, but also delayed, concealed, and ultimately incomplete.
Its uncompleted nature also makes this a day to grow in awareness and action, as the national urgency over systemic racism highlights what Black Americans have known and expressed at every turn: that full equality and freedom are still withheld.
White Americans in particular must act in the recognition that racism is a system, not just an attitude or action, and this Juneteenth recommit to our responsibility as allies to dismantle systems constructed for our benefit at the expense of Black people.
