It's Juneteenth, a great time to celebrate American history.

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Your data is your business protected at expressvPN.com slash Ben. We're going to get to all the news in just a moment today, of course, is Juneteenth, which is the date that commemorates the last state to be read. The Emancipation Proclamation at the end of the Civil War was Texas, and the Emancipation Proclamation was read to a group of now freed slaves in Texas on this date in 1865. We'll talk about that. And then we'll talk about the legacy of American history and exactly the after effect of all of this and why we are now having debates over whether America is truly free. We'll get to all of that in just a moment. First, despite everything that's going on, there are a lot of good things that we can appreciate, like what ZipRecruiter is doing right now. They're continuing to do what they have always done, helping people find jobs and helping companies hire forward their teams. We may be in a V-shaped recovery. We can always hope. I mean, it seems like the economy wants to mounts back people, want to get back to work. And if you're a job seeker, ZipRecruiter is focused on helping you find work faster. They send you up to the minute relevant jobs through their app so you can be

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between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes

that between employer and hired laborer. As the website points out, the reactions to this

profound news reign from pure shocked to immediate jubilation. Now, of course, Juneteenth didn't

end the story of racism in America or discrimination

in America, but it was the end of slavery, and it was the marker that America was attempting

to fulfill its founding promises.

At Juneteenth should be a national holiday.

The reason it should be a national holiday is because America, there's a good case to me

that America essentially had two foundings. Neither one was in 1619. The first founding was in 1776

with the establishment of universal principles. And the second was in 1865 with the fulfillment

of the promise for black Americans that they were not to be slaves or to be excluded from the

Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence. Of course, it took another century for black Americans to

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