We Better Celebrate This One—Because at the Current Rate, We Might Not Have Another. In this Juneteenth reflection, I set out to dismantle the myth of emancipation and reclaim the holiday as a celebration of Black resistance—not white benevolence. Drawing from history and lived experience, I trace the enduring legacy of anti-Blackness, from the failure of reparations to the ongoing machinery of racialized capitalism. Juneteenth, for me, has never been about freedom granted—it has always been about freedom seized. I’m inviting us all to remember, resist, and radically reimagine justice in a nation still reluctant to reckon with its past. Because at the rate we’re going, this might be the last Juneteenth we get to celebrate like this.
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Happy Juneteenth, Y’all.
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We Better Celebrate This One—Because at the Current Rate, We Might Not Have Another. In this Juneteenth reflection, I set out to dismantle the myth of emancipation and reclaim the holiday as a celebration of Black resistance—not white benevolence. Drawing from history and lived experience, I trace the enduring legacy of anti-Blackness, from the failure of reparations to the ongoing machinery of racialized capitalism. Juneteenth, for me, has never been about freedom granted—it has always been about freedom seized. I’m inviting us all to remember, resist, and radically reimagine justice in a nation still reluctant to reckon with its past. Because at the rate we’re going, this might be the last Juneteenth we get to celebrate like this.