What Was Impossible is Now History - Dear America

Dear America,

Happy Juneteenth. Yesterday, while wandering the streets, I observed a most remarkable thing. My roaming took me directly across from a dock where slaves were auctioned and I even walked right past a place where similar slaves were temporarily housed before being shipped off to whatever horrors awaited them further inland. I found this remarkable as less than thirty minutes prior to seeing these places, I came across a sign celebrating none other than Juneteenth.

What a sign of evolution, if there ever was one! An atrocity that took a war and countless sacrifices to end is now a memory with a holiday created to signify its destruction. Something I particularly marvel at is how time trounces even the most resilient of things until they are nearly all but forgotten. I'm sure many thought the Soviet Union would always exist, and even more than a few probably assumed a Castro would always lord over Cuba. To be fair, new evils emerge as time goes on, but so do great accomplishments.

One day, I like to think that North Korea will fall and that China will begin a new dynasty free from its current masters. Perhaps one day we'll celebrate the end of another impossibility like hunger or poverty? Do we dare to imagine such grand dreams? Over fifty years ago we went to the moon, and twenty years after that we knocked the Berlin Wall down. What will we do next? I can't help but spend this new holiday looking up and feeling hopeful.

-Calhoun

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