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for the Daily Signal. Recently, we've had a lot of discussion about racial relations,

and the consensus from left to right seems constant and uniform that they're getting much

worse. There were two or three iconic events this last week that emphasized that pessimism.

One was in the Juneteenth celebration in Chicago, which

commemorated the official end of slavery in the 1860s and is now our newest national holiday.

It ended up with 39 people wounded, seven dead, semi-automatic gunfire.

It was almost like a war zone.

The mayor of Chicago, Mayor Johnson, did not comment on what was the cause of this or the pathologies that would leave people to slaughter.

This was entirely 100% black-on-black crime,

but he was talking about illiberality and discrimination against trans people

when his city is under siege.

At the same time, or prior to that,

was the Carmelo Anthony murder,

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