Juneteenth, A Holiday for White Americans, Obviously

Scripture-ish · Jun 19, 2026 · 43m

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them,and they are caught in the toils of their sin. (Proverbs 5:22)

I have actually heard people say that Juneteenth is a holiday for only one segment of the population. But what I can’t figure out is why we would not expect Black people to celebrate?

Obviously it’s a holiday for white people—or, let’s put it this way: it must be a time of celebration for those people who look back on the nineteenth-century American South and, because of their skin color, wonder whether, had they lived then and there, they would have been slave owners. Thank God we are no…