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On June 19, 1865, Union Army General Gordon Granger stood on the balcony of the Ashton Villa in Galveston and said, in part, 'In accordance with a proclamat.

This Juneteenth, a rallying cry has taken hold as uprisings around the world take place. “Defund the police” has become the signature demand of those marching for racial justice, and is about more than just taking money from the city budget lines devoted to law enforcement. It is about investing in low-income black communities in a real and substantive way.

Responding to congressional Democrats announcement on police reform legislation, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor tweeted that next, “we want the package that deals with the racial economy that pins Black people to the bottom of the US hierarchy. We must destroy the economic conditions that predispose Black people to violent, racist policing.”

Those marching have certainly captured the public imagination. Nearly every company has taken it upon themselves to issue a statement condemning racism, putting up black squares on Instagram, and investing in anti-racist trainings for its employees. Many companies, including Vox Media, Vox’s parent company, have made Juneteenth a company holiday. Meanwhile, the reformers are looking for ways to rein in the violent behavior of police.

Some of these changes will make a difference, others are merely symbolic, but none of them truly address the demands to invest — heavily — in righting the economic wrongs that have plagued America since its inception.

This isn’t the first time America has wrestled with whether to address this problem. The country has failed time and again to put real money into its racial inequalities, from failed reparations after the civil war to Martin Luther King Jr.’s unfinished business of economic investment to the resurgent popularity of reparations in recent years. Now, as America again debates how far to go when addressing the raw pain exposed by George Floyd’s death, it will have to come at a cost.

After all, chokehold bans are free — closing the racial wealth gap is not.

Congress had an opportunity to address economic pain in civil rights era legislation. It failed.

Near the end of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. grew disheartened with reluctance to adopt comprehensive financial measures to remedy years of racial discrimination, slavery, and Jim Crow. King’s activism accomplished a lot, but he wasn’t merely content with desegregation, citizenship, and voting rights. He and many civil rights leaders pushed for policies that would enable black people to participate as full equals in the American economy. King deplored how when black people searched for a “realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared.”

“The practical cost of change for the nation up to this point has been cheap. The limited reforms have been obtained at bargain rates. There are no expenses, and no taxes are required, for Negroes to share lunch counters, libraries, parks, hotels and other facilities with whites,” he wrote in 1967’s Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?

“The real cost lies ahead,” King continued. “The stiffening of white resistance is a recognition of that fact. The discount education given Negroes will, in the future, have to be purchased at full price if quality education is to be realized. Jobs are harder and costlier to create than voting rolls. The eradication, of slums housing millions, is complex far beyond integrating buses and lunch counters.”

King planned a movement to accomplish this, with the Poor People’s Campaign, which he envisioned as “a new kind of Selma or Birmingham to dramatize the economic plight of the Negro, and compel the government to act.” Acting in this sense meant funding “an economic Bill of Rights” that would address issues around housing, income, and employment. Yet King was killed before the campaign could be carried out, and his prophetic pessimism about American resistance toward enacting economic policy addressing racism proved prudent.

The campaign failed. The legislation never saw meaningful action. The broader aims of creating economic solutions fell by the wayside — just as the “jobs” portion of the 1963 March on Washington was disregarded, just as the sweeping reforms of the Freedom Budget were ignored, just as the calls for reparations since Reconstruction were ridiculed.

Contrary to the “racial progress narrative” that most Americans receive, fully half of the civil rights movement’s objective — ending racial economic inequality — was left unaddressed.

As CUNY political scientist Frances Fox Piven co-wrote, summarizing the incomplete work of the civil rights movement, “the black struggle was waged for two main goals. One was to secure formal political rights in the South, especially the right to the franchise; the other was to secure economic advances. In retrospect, it is clear that the main victory was the extension of political rights to Southern blacks.”

America is just beginning to think about this idea again

Just a year ago, for the first time, Congress considered a bill to compose a commission to study reparations proposals for slavery and to weigh a national apology for the ensuing problems the institution caused. The idea has been repopularized thanks to the work of activists, writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the Democratic primary, when Sen. Drivers epson scsi & raid devices. Elizabeth Warren and others said it was time for the country to consider the idea.

During that historic congressional hearing, Republicans scoffed at reparations the way a customer might sneer after being charged twice for the same meal. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rebuffed the idea. “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago when none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea,” he told reporters. “We’ve tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We’ve elected an African American president.” Most Americans agreed — 68 percent, according to the 2019 AP-NORC Center poll.

This popular opposition flows, in part, from the premise that no significant debt exists to be paid. In our political imagination, the United States lives as a racially egalitarian country. However, Americans underestimate the black-white racial wealth gap’s vastness by 80 percent, according to a 2019 Yale study.

“The American racial-progress narrative leads people to make overly optimistic estimates regarding the state of racial economic equality in the nation,” the authors write, explaining that “Americans of all races and economic circumstances falsely believe that there has been substantial progress in closing racial economic gaps over the past 50 years or so.”

In other words, citizens think that since the civil rights era, the United States successfully redressed the economic ills created by American slavery and Jim Crow. It did not. As Harvard sociologist Lawrence D. Bobo writes:

Although monumental accomplishments, the Brown decision, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 primarily secured the basic citizenship rights of African Americans. The successes of the civil rights movement..did not eradicate sharp black-white differences in social and economic status; and they did not undo nationwide patterns of racial residential segregation. That is, the enormous and far-reaching gains of the civil rights movement did not eliminate stark patterns of racial domination and inequality that existed above, beyond, and irrespective of the specific dictates of the distinctly Southern Jim Crow system.

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Today, protests continue to roil nationwide, demanding investment to close these gaping racial chasms because, as a country, America has never made a full-fledged effort to address these disparities in the first place.

Incubated in American slavery and apartheid, inequality flourished in the free market

Inequalities established during centuries of discrimination were allowed to settle and fester into American life. This leads to what Harvard’s Bobo calls our modern age of “laissez-faire racism” — a type of racial inequality predicated “on the market and informal racial bias to recreate, and in some instances sharply worsen, structured racial inequality.”

Vox’s Netflix, Explained series describes how this process continues to churn in markets, allowing racism’s past effects to justify more racism. Today, employers remain hesitant to set up shops in black neighborhoods but make Juneteenth a company holiday. Healthy restaurants avoid entering neighborhoods because the incomes are too low. Home values only start to rise in gentrifying neighborhoods when enough white people move in. All this is tied to a legacy of redlining and divestment stretching decades back. And it’s getting worse, as the racial wealth gap continues to expand over time. According to a 2019 analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies, “between 1983 and 2016, the median Black family saw their wealth drop by more than half after inflation, compared to a 33% increase for the median White household.”

Tragically, most people strain to remember how we got here. In America, the civil rights movement is hardly taught in schools, and when it is, it is projected as the triumphant narrative where citizenship is won. Economic equality is either assumed or forgotten.

Yet as James Baldwin writes, the impact of American racism is not subject to our recollections. “It is not a question of memory,” he writes. “Oedipus did not remember the thongs that bound his feet; nevertheless marks they left testified to that doom toward which his feet were leading him. The man does not remember the hand that struck him, the darkness that frightened him, as a child; nevertheless, the hand and the darkness remain with him, indivisible from himself forever, part of the passion that drives him wherever he thinks to take flight.”

Juneteenth is an occasion to remember what we have forgotten. It is a time to remember not just how far African Americans have come in the United States since slavery, but how much, particularly on economic policy, they are still owed.

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In the wake of nationwide protests against racial injustice, the holiday Juneteenth has garnered widespread attention beyond the confines of Southern Black communities for the first time.

The observance marks the date, June 19, 1865, that the last enslaved African Americans were finally liberated in Texas, nearly 2 ½ years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation into law.

Long recognized as the state holiday Emancipation Day in Texas — and acknowledged by nearly all U.S. states in some way — there have been growing calls to declare the day a federal holiday. New York and Virginia have now deemed it an official holiday, and corporations including Twitter, Nike and the NFL are honoring the day as a paid company holiday.

Fort Worth native Channing Godfrey Peoples, whose feature debut 'Miss Juneteenth' hits select theaters, digital and VOD platforms on Friday, grew up celebrating the holiday but, like most Americans, wasn't taught about the date's historical significance in school.

'Honestly, I wasn't taught a whole lot about Juneteenth, it just was,' she said. 'Where I grew up, you learned about Juneteenth by the community. School was inconsequential in that sense, it was a community education.

'I remember every year I'd go [to the celebration] and there was always a parade and music and dancing. And to a kid, that's an exciting time. I remember being invigorated by this sense of community.'

Inspired by the real Miss Juneteenth competition, the indie drama stars Nicole Beharie as Turquoise Jones, a former beauty queen who has failed to achieve success beyond her pageant win. Turquoise is a single mother struggling to make ends meet while clinging fiercely to the hope that her rebellious teenage daughter Kai (Alexis Chikaeze) can replicate her win and create a different outcome for herself.

'I loved Turquoise as a character because she exemplifies someone who a lot of people would just pass by without realizing the richness of her life,' said Beharie by phone from Georgia. 'There are not a lot of movies about the women that keep things afloat. I was raised by a single mother so I just wanted to breathe some life into that as best I could. It feels like with a great deal of storytelling, there are perspectives that are missing or they're always told in the exact same way.'

'I actually wasn't that familiar with the holiday, so initially when I looked it up I thought [the movie] was going to be a period piece,' added Beharie, who spent her childhood in multiple parts of the globe while her father worked in the foreign service and then lived in D.C. and various Southern states. 'It wasn't something that I learned about in my rearing. I must say there's an irony to this moment, to finally being aware of [Juneteenth] and feeling like [Black people] are still seeking the promise of freedom and full citizenship. There's contradictions there, to celebrating belated freedom in this moment. It's heavy, the symbolism.'

Beharie, who stole scenes in Steve McQueen's 'Shame' and the 'Striking Vipers' episode of 'Black Mirror,' is perhaps best known for the three years she spent on the Fox series 'Sleepy Hollow.'

The show offered a rare opportunity for a Black woman to lead a supernatural-themed drama. But after a promising first season, her character Abbie Mills was sidelined in the show's second season before getting unceremoniously killed off in the Season 3 finale.

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'What happened on 'Sleepy Hollow' is really interesting,' said Beharie tactfully. 'We had a lot of things happen that paralleled the conversations that are happening in this moment.'

Before Abbie's sacrificial death to save her white partner Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison), the show had already begun to sideline the character in favor of a (critically-panned) romantic subplot between Ichabod and his wife. And behind the scenes, Beharie and Mison were treated as disparately as their characters were on-screen.

'My costar and I were both sick at the same time but I don't believe that we were treated equally,' said Beharie. 'He was allowed to go back to England for a month [to recover while] I was given Episode 9 to shoot on my own. So I pushed through it and then by the end of that episode I was in urgent care. And all the doctors, including the doctors that the studio was sending, were all confirming, 'Hey, she can't work right now.'

Beharie was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that, at the time, she attributed to her abrupt departure. 'There's a lot of pressure in a situation like that where so many people are relying on you alone to get up and get going,' she said. 'I feel like it's taken me the last few years to really see clearly that it wasn't personal, it's about the way that these structures are set up. It was very difficult to talk about at the time because I wanted to get back to work. But I was labeled as problematic and blacklisted by some people.'

'I probably could have been more diplomatic about things in some way,' she added. 'Since then, I've been making sure that I'm working with the right folks. It's something that we've seen with #MeToo and Time's Up, where people who've asked questions have been discarded. It's not a new story [but] I never thought it would be my story. Unfortunately it is, but healing takes time and I feel like I'm on the other side of it. I learned a lot. I wouldn't change anything. I wouldn't wish it on anybody, though.'

Enraged fans pushed to cancel the show after Abbie's death, using the hashtag #AbbieDeservesBetter and expressing support for Beharie. The show, which had been on a steady ratings decline, was canceled a season after her character's exit.

'There was a fan base that, without me even really saying anything or anybody knowing what was really going on, picked up on something,' she said. 'I was shocked by the hashtag. I didn't really have time to take it in because we were working 16-, 18-hour days. And once I left and heard about everything, I didn't have the voice yet. I was too busy healing to really take it in.'

It was a harsh lesson in the fickle nature of stardom, and between Beharie's 'Sleepy Hollow' departure and the Sundance premiere of 'Miss Juneteenth' earlier this year, she only booked a few roles including supporting parts in the acclaimed indie 'Monsters and Men' and Hulu's limited series 'Little Fires Everywhere.'

'I think Hollywood is an industry that's difficult for everyone,' she added. 'My particular walk is colored by a number of different things. And yeah, it has been challenging. I am reconciling what it means to be an actor and an artist and a woman of color. The consequences of making a mistake or causing a ripple in the water are greater. And ultimately, nobody wants to be [deemed] trouble. So those situations hold you back and you keep quiet, not wanting to upset anyone or ask too many questions. But I feel like I, and the world as a whole, are in a different place now and I'm happy about that.'

Nowadays, Beharie is in much better health and is working on writing scripts 'that I hope we'll be seeing in the next year or two,' she said.

'I no longer register as having an autoimmune disease, but I did have moments where the markers for it were a part of my testing,' she said. 'I'm in a very good place now. I have a very clean diet and do lots of mindfulness and meditation and self-care — which I have to say, I wish it didn't take getting ill for me to really believe in those things.'

In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Beharie is less fearful about contracting the virus than she is of navigating the systemically racist healthcare industry.

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'I was very concerned when coronavirus first came into the consciousness,' she said. 'I was a bit panicked because as a person of color and a woman, I have experienced the healthcare system and really have had to advocate for myself.'

'I'm in Georgia right now and it's pretty open,' she added. 'I don't see a lot of people wearing masks and gloves. And we live in America, so everyone has a choice. But I hope people can be more cautious because I don't think that this virus is political. I don't think this virus is choosing sides.'

With the coronavirus crisis and now a wave of protests against police brutality and systemic racism, Beharie says 2020 'is a year unlike any other.' 'I'm just praying for all of us, that we use this time wisely and that we progress.

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'Sometimes when something new is being born, there's a lot of pain,' she mused. 'There's contractions and blood and screaming and then hopefully on the other side of it you have new life. I'm hoping that that's where we are, that this is just the labor part. It's necessary pain to bring in something new.'