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Article: The Juneteenth Drama - It has long been an inside joke for someone to say that Juneteenth was a
testament to ignorance. The ignorance was that slaves in Texas were supposedly too dumb, ignorant, or uninformed, or all three, to realize that two-plus years had passed since they were freed.
Article: The Juneteenth Drama - It has long been an inside joke for someone to say that Juneteenth was a
testament to ignorance. The ignorance was that slaves in Texas were supposedly too dumb, ignorant, or uninformed, or all three, to realize that two-plus years had passed since they were freed.