A Juneteenth Reflection on America’s Unfinished Business

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Civil War,Frederick Douglass,Racial Inequity

John Palfrey is president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” asked Frederick Douglass in his Fourth of July Oration in 1852. “I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty” of America.Douglass’s speech remains among the most powerful and poignant in United States history more than a century and a half later.

Others have valiantly fought against friends and families to create a better, fairer society.Today we have the job of coming to grips with our history and charting a new path for those who come after us. That is why white people must join with others in the work of making our communities and institutions more diverse.

 

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