'What Juneteenth has reaffirmed for me is the importance of centering Black joy, people, activists, creatives, work, art, freedom and all Black everything more than ever.' —reineayiti
The fact is that the Juneteenth frenzy never sat well with me. As soon as the public celebrations began to unfurl, I had reservations and critiques. I feared that these grand gestures of solidarity and statements of commitment were no more than vacuous, hollow symbols intended to show that white people finally got it, regardless of whether or not action would follow.
that surfaced earlier this year. Here we have Juneteenth, another opportunity to profit off of Blackness without investing in dismantling anti-Blackness.fall into a familiar reductive pattern, I recognized similarities in these Juneteenth celebrations that troubled me. I feared that just like Martin Luther King Day and Black History Month, Juneteenth would become the next obligatory signal of wokeness without work.
To be clear, that Juneteenth is a sacred celebration of the end of slavery is not lost on me. I am not an
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