Keisha N. Blain: Black people built America's wealth. We deserve more than a day off.
.” Yet, the racial wealth gap has persisted well into the 21st century. Progress has been remarkably slow.
According to Schermerhorn, Black Americans “owned one-half of one percent of the national wealth” in 1863. Decades-long discriminatory and exclusionary practices in the United States have limited Black access to wealth. African Americans now own just more than 1.5 percent of the national wealth. Juneteenth, then, is the opportune moment to acknowledge these stark racial disparities in wealth.
The aftermath of emancipation in Texas demonstrates how exploitative practices continued. After Granger’s order, Galveston’s mayor still newly freed Black people, and some slaveholders even fought to keep Black people working on their plantations. The efforts to delay were largely motivated by white Southerners’ desire to continue the practice of exploiting Black people for their labor.
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