The Commodification of Juneteenth Is Now Loading
America made the end of slavery a federal holiday and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
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6 min readJun 17, 2021
In the midst of worldwide protests last year, Juneteenth had its great coming-out party. As much of White America scrambled to not be the bad guy, the holiday commemorating the last vestiges of legalized slavery came right on time. At the…