It doesn't matter in reality. Averages don't matter. My friend, white, who was one of the top 10k chess players in the US was beaten in 5 minute chess by a black man The place was Washington Square Park and he lost a few dollars.
It's a bad story, to be sure, but it's not the American part of the story. Juneteenth is about the American part of the story.
To reiterate, I do not appreciate the market holiday but I do understand the reason they feel the need to make a holiday.
All of this is close enough, but that’s pretty well covered when we learn about the triangle trade. Not that I’m against people understanding “totality of circumstance” but Juneteenth is about the end of slavery in America. “Free men, and free women, and free children, and freedom” as Thaddeus Stevens is alleged to have said, or something thereabouts. FYI, my neighbors made a cake for Juneteenth. The lady and my wife are friendly, she said it was to remember how sweet freedom must have tasted. I thought that was nice.
No. America is only accepting its own history and responsibility, and celebrating the end of the scourge of slavery in its own country. Take a breath, bro.
The US was supposed to be an enlightened country. It essentially regarded other countries as lesser. Remember? An experiment. Founding fathers, and all that. Well, evidently, for a time, they were no better than the backwoods slave owners of uncivilized Third World countries. Perhaps Juneteenth is a celebration of a rise to some semblance of decency and rectitude. Although there are elements here that would evidently like to take it backwards a step or two.