Freedom is not free (Happy Juneteenth)
Dock workers in Galveston, Texas, 1863. When I was in the 3rd grade, I remember one particular evening my dad asked me what I had learned in school that day. I thought his question was a test of me, not a test of the Philadelphia public school system. I proudly told my father I learned that President Abraham Lincoln was my friend because he freed the slaves with a presidential order called the Emancipation Proclamation. I let my dad know that it was because of this heroic president that we...
