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

Scott Woods
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6 min readJun 17, 2021

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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…

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Scott Woods
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Writer and poet holding down Columbus, Ohio