The Discovery of Meaning of Juneteenth

This American Celebration’s Roots Are Much Deeper

A picture of infatuated white women admiring a true American Freedom Fighter:

These white chicks were really into black men (the sitting Pitts sister was lucky to marry this rich hero dude, best-selling author and in demand speaker, and became Fredrick Douglass’ second wife)

Recently, I’ve heard a few interpretations by black Americans on the meaning of Juneteenth that have led me to struggle to understand it. As a new holiday, the meaning though is not yet fixed and leaves it open to further probing, which hopefully will open more questions than answers. I may not get to the “truth” but it’s best to start trying for a bigger celebration next year, the third time nationally.

First, can we determine what it is not?

It is not a celebration of some white person giving freedom to black slaves. Ii have been thinking about the holiday’s meaning the weeks after this Juneteenth. Last one, the first national holiday, I had originally thought that this white Union general sailing down to Galveston, Texas to announce to the “last slaves” that they were free was a good symbol of white people’s admittance that somehow, they were “defeated” by the immorality of slavery. The whites had done deep, irreparable wrong to black Americans. That was a nice poorly conceived fantasy I made up, a good symbol maybe, after the first Juneteenth federal holiday in 2021. But it probably isn’t such a great one.