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joining me is annette gordon reid, author on juneteenth" which i was kicking i didn't bring it to geti was happy for sheila jackson lee. i know she's fought for this for a long time. beyond being a warm and fuzzy sort of acknowledgement of the country and the end of slavery, what does it mean? >> we can begin a discussion about it. one of the great things about this holiday is it's taylor made for history. people have to know what happens, when did it happen, why did it happen that way. and every sort of celebrations i've seen, they always have an educational component. this is the united states, it will be kmod fight in some way. it's some hard things about the past. >> that's inconvenient. that's going to be illegal. we're at a moment where there are a lot of republicans who have made their cause doing the opposite and saying that we're not to talk about history that makes anyone who is white uncomfortable. to say anything sort of cast aspersions on slave owners to make them something other than benevolent people to say the founders were sort of innocence on race and that they reall

gordon reid. her acclaimed book is entitled "on juneteenth." annette, when we had you on before, you told us that you had a little bit of problem people outside of texas celebrating this holiday. so i'm thinking this morning, in the words of my grandmother, grandma, jewel, this must take the rag off the churn. this has to really be something for, a national holiday. would you have even believed this which you started writing this book? i would >> i wouldn't have believed it. i have to say, joe, when i was younger, i felt a lot of pique about people celebrating, but i'm totally happy about it now. but i didn't anticipate pip certainly didn't anticipate the quickness of everything that's happened this week, certainly. >> so talk about it. talk about what it means to you. talk about what it means to this country. >> well, juneteenth is tailor made. i love it because i'm a historian, it's tailor made for thinking about history. you have to ask, what happened? when it happened? why? what happened afterwards? and almost every celebration that i've seen, ever