Welcome back to the Dershow, today is Juneteenth, which is now a national holiday for the last

few years.

It's a great reminder of the horrors of enslavement that this country perpetrated for so many years

and Jim Crow horrors that followed for those who are you unaware of the meaning of Juneteenth.

It was the day back in 1865, the year the war ended, the year Lincoln was assassinated, when

the enslaved African-Americans of Texas learned for the first time that Lincoln had emancipated

them earlier, but they didn't know about it.

So for years, African-American communities and ordinary folks have in private basically

celebrated this the end of enslavement, good article on today's New York Times by a woman

a historian who talked about how as a young person she celebrated it really locally among

folks and she was speculating as to whether or not making it a national holiday will impact

local events and she's calling for it to be both national and a local event for the

black community.

And so it really makes you think, though, just think in your own minds.

Can you ever imagine somebody owning another person, somebody selling and buying another

person?

It just seems unimaginable to the mind of current people.

And good people doing it, Thomas Jefferson who wrote that Olmene created equal and who had

some of the most glorious writing from the time he wrote the declaration to the time he

died almost 50 years later, it's just remarkable and there were those who remarkably stood

up against it.

Alexander Hamilton who grew up on a slave island and saw enslavement with his own eyes

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