OPINION: Juneteenth is a reminder of the headwinds to social justice, writes HarveyYoungBU. There’s a reason it took two years for news of freedom to spread.
People dance as they celebrate during a Juneteenth commemoration at Leimert Park Plaza on Saturday, June 19, 2021, in Los Angeles.
Juneteenth was an occasion filled with the joy of being together. It was also a holiday of leisure. Similar to the great ones — Christmas, Thanksgiving — it required a lot of work. My father would be the first to arrive at the picnic shelter only minutes after the park opened. Smokers would be unloaded. Grill fires started. The various meats would begin their hours-long slow roasting.
We celebrate Juneteenth because African American communities everywhere chose the date as a marker, as a starting point, at which Black men, women, and children might begin to have access to the rights and liberties outlined 90 years earlier in the Declaration of Independence. Amya Watson, 11, prints "Black Power," on a poster celebrating Juneteenth during the "Black Joy as Resistance! Juneteenth Celebration" in the historic Farish Street business district in downtown Jackson, Miss., Friday, June 19, 2020.
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