Juneteenth National Independence Day: The Freedom That Arrived Two Years Late, and the President Who Won't Say Its Name

When Freedom Showed Up Late

Texas kept slavery running for two and a half years after the order that was supposed to end it. The law said free. The reality said otherwise. The people in chains had no idea a proclamation with their name on it had already been signed, because nobody with the power to enforce it had bothered to show up. That gap between the…