Publisher’s Note: This column first ran on Juneteenth on Facebook.

Today’s numbers: 60%. 155. 2020.

That’s three-fifths – what the original Constitution established as the value of enslaved people (all black) relative to citizens (almost all white); 155 years since slavery was declared dead in Texas and the Confederacy; and today’s date, when many people are still taught that the Civil War had nothing to do with prejudice and slavery – one small example of how i...