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1. Hmmm? But there was the abrupt end of Reconstruction...

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Mon Aug 3, 2020, 11:50 AM

Aug 2020

with no promised forty acres and a mule, and of course the many decades of jim crow, and still the continued racial injustice to this day. Such a celebration rings hollow to me.

Just a public acknowledgement instead of hyped, media event seems more appropriate.

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