i think for many of us, we learned a cautionary tale of the martin luther king jr. holiday to hold king s values and sanitized it, so i think what we can see with this holiday is that people will not accept the bread crumbs and that they re going to use this moment to push people to say what this means to commemorate the struggle of people who were enslaved and then learned their freedom after it was granted. this holiday is very much like state actors versus federal laws that benefit african-americans. yeah. there are some aspects of the actual events that led to juneteenth that remain a bit murky. what is your understanding of how texas was able to keep people enslaved two full years after the emancipation proclamation. how did it actually come about? well, some people argued that because of texas location and the lack of union soldier presence in the state of texas that it was able to evade the