Friends,

Slavery is a profoundly shameful chapter in our country's history. This country was built on the bruised, broken backs of the African people who were stolen from their homeland to face unimaginable cruelty here in America.

Today is Juneteenth — the day we commemorate and celebrate the freedom of all previously enslaved Black Americans in the Confederate South. But it actually took over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation to force the last of the white landowners to release these free men, women, and children. And it's no secret that 400 years after enslavement began, we still have a long way to go until Black Americans experience the full, lived equality that has been denied them for entirely too long.

Today is a time to honor the strength and resiliency of the Black community, but it's also a time for all of us to recommit ourselves to the fight for racial justice and do the hard work to understand and dismantle our own privilege and both conscious and unconscious biases. Check out this incredible selection of anti-racism literature thanks to New Jersey's own Rutgers University >>

Progress can only begin if we acknowledge past wrongs and take action in every way we can to make things right. From inequalities in housing and health care to policing and criminal justice reform, the road ahead will not be short or easy. But it is our obligation to the Black community and to the integrity of this great nation to do better, friend. And soon.

In solidarity,

Donald

 

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