5 Years Ago: The Peculiar Blindness, Part 5: Missing Dates

I'm currently back in the South, so it's timely that I revisit this five-year old post. Although Juneteenth remains a legal public holiday, President Trump unilaterally deleted both Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Day from the list of days when we can all* enter national parks for free. In their place, the president proclaimed his own birthday as a day when we can all enter national parks for free, in addition to Constitution Day and Theodore Roosevelt's birthday. *"All" excludes non-citizens and non-residents, who must pay one HUNDRED dollars PER PERSON over the age of 16 to enter some national parks. For a family who might have wanted to spend several days in the area, is that per day? Or maybe the entrance is good for several days? I don't know the answer to that. The bleaching of America continues. I often think back to the Readings on Race Book Club I joined during my year in Ferguson, Missouri. One of our members said this: "Brown is the global majority." The US is not, and…