9/22. But no slaves were freed that day.

Black people remember the day they actually achieved freedom in Galveston, which was more important to them than the day all the white people would like to celebrate a legislative act that had no direct impact on the slaves who were being held in a separate nation that was fighting to continue slavery.

Thus is just one of the many, many misunderstandings of the white people's view versus the black people's view of life in our America. Once we engage in conversations with the folks who were impacted by being black and growing up with another man's name because he owned your family, and being treated as second class citizens in much of the country after being freed, and all of the other factors of being here and being black, then we can begin to understand their views on this country. Then we can understand how they are treated differently daily because of their race. Then maybe we can move toward a country that truly does treat all equally.

The MainStream looks forward to that day.