From a WSB race-baiting article -
Experts say Americans will benefit from appreciating the full significance of Juneteenth.
“They need to learn about Juneteenth, they need to learn about what it looks like, for justice to be delayed, justice to be denied,” Lassiter said. “When you look at the Fourth of July, you have to look at the Fourth of July, for all of its inaccuracies, all of its grandeur, all of its beauty, but also all of this critique.”
Kermit Roosevelt, professor of constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law and the author of a Time magazine opinion piece on Juneteenth, says many Americans understand July 4 incorrectly.
“It's not about the freedom of individuals,” Roosevelt said. “And we think about it as if it is, because we value the idea of individual liberty more than ... national independence.”
For centuries, Americans have celebrated July 4 as a celebration of “individual liberty and individual rights. But Juneteenth is really the day that celebrates individual rights,” Roosevelt said.
Roosevelt says the two holidays point out the good guys and the bad guys in U.S. history. “We have to reckon with this legacy,” Roosevelt said. “It’s hard for white Americans, really, to feel as good about Juneteenth as they do about July 4, because in the July 4 story, white Americans are the good guys. Whereas in the Juneteenth story, some white Americans are the good guys and in some ways, [white] Americans are the bad guys.”
Link to story - https://www.wsbradio.com/news/natio...ca9cc4c623b2588838624b9ab3ec9035393b45d5cb92e
Why Juneteenth represents freedom better than July 4 for many Americans
Experts say Americans will benefit from appreciating the full significance of Juneteenth.
“They need to learn about Juneteenth, they need to learn about what it looks like, for justice to be delayed, justice to be denied,” Lassiter said. “When you look at the Fourth of July, you have to look at the Fourth of July, for all of its inaccuracies, all of its grandeur, all of its beauty, but also all of this critique.”
Kermit Roosevelt, professor of constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law and the author of a Time magazine opinion piece on Juneteenth, says many Americans understand July 4 incorrectly.
“It's not about the freedom of individuals,” Roosevelt said. “And we think about it as if it is, because we value the idea of individual liberty more than ... national independence.”
For centuries, Americans have celebrated July 4 as a celebration of “individual liberty and individual rights. But Juneteenth is really the day that celebrates individual rights,” Roosevelt said.
Roosevelt says the two holidays point out the good guys and the bad guys in U.S. history. “We have to reckon with this legacy,” Roosevelt said. “It’s hard for white Americans, really, to feel as good about Juneteenth as they do about July 4, because in the July 4 story, white Americans are the good guys. Whereas in the Juneteenth story, some white Americans are the good guys and in some ways, [white] Americans are the bad guys.”
Link to story - https://www.wsbradio.com/news/natio...ca9cc4c623b2588838624b9ab3ec9035393b45d5cb92e
