Most of us white Americans have only recently become educated on the significance of June 19th. As Black communities have celebrated Juneteenth, a day that could rightly be seen as America's true Independence Day, too many of us who never learned about the final pronouncements of freedom to the enslaved people of Texas simply lived without the knowledge and the inspiration it brings. Most Americans are also unfamiliar with Homer Plessy and John Marshall Harlan and their contributions to eliminating some of our nation's most racist laws. So let's learn together.
*My sermon on June 18, 2023 at Bluegrass United Church of Christ in Lexington, Kentucky. MESSAGE: "Harlan & Plessy" by Kenny Bishop
SCRIPTURE: Galatians 4: 7
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