I'm trying to figure out how to write something about Juneteenth and how important it is that this country recognize it, since the cancer of race-based chattel slavery still affects our country to this day. (Though, Gods willing, less and less every year.) We were the only nation to have race-based chattel slavery for any period of time, and it's poisoned American race relations in a way you just don't see in any other nation. But I'm a white girl who wasn't even born in this country, and I don't want to come across as smug and self-righteous.

How excellent it is that America finally recognized Blacks as free citizens, and how shameful it is that she hid that truth from herself for so long.