Cameron Smith: Juneteenth and the human dignity of our fellow Americans

Roughly 2,000 Union troops marched into Galveston Bay, Texas on June 19, 1865, and declared that more than 250,000 enslaved Black Texans were free. The promise made more than two years earlier took nothing less than a war to realize. As we celebrate Juneteenth, we seem to have forgotten the consequences of dehumanizing our fellow Americans.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” reads the Declaration of Independence, “that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races—that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermingling with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.

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