why this moment? Why Juneteenth has sort of erupted in this… - Jamelle Bouie

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why this moment? Why Juneteenth has sort of erupted in this way over the past couple weeks, why people find it so resonant right now is that Juneteenth is very much a holiday about the distance between freedom that is promised and freedom that is lived. And right now, millions of Americans are seeing with regards to police brutality, with regard to inequality, the distance that still exists between freedom and liberty, as we imagine it, as we have proclaimed it, and that has actually experienced by ordinary people.

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(born April 12, 1987) is an American journalist and columnist for . He was formerly chief political correspondent for Slate magazine.

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