Celebrating the tip of slavery in the US in 1865, Juneteenth, is tapered with ideas that 155 years later, we nonetheless have a approach to go for freedom, independence, and fairness. We’ve got but to beat boundaries in schooling, housing, employment, well being, and so on., for all individuals.
With the designation of June 19 as a federal authorized vacation in 2021, it’s nonetheless too new to know whether or not we are saying, “Blissful Juneteenth” and even know the way to have fun the day. Nevertheless, we all know that naming an ice cream taste Juneteenth like a serious retailer did will not be the best way to have fun.
There’s additionally some confusion in regards to the phrases, fairness and equality. Is there a distinction? Sure, these two phrases don’t share the identical that means.
Equality means every particular person or group of individuals is given the identical sources or alternatives.
Fairness acknowledges that every individual has totally different circumstances and allocates sources and alternatives wanted to succeed in an equal consequence.
This diagram offered by the Pennsylvania Division of Well being reveals the distinction.
The CDC says that well being fairness is achieved when each individual can “attain his or her full well being potential” and nobody is “deprived from reaching this potential due to social place or different socially decided circumstances.”
And based on the World Well being Group, “well being is a state of full bodily, social and psychological well-being, and never merely the absence of illness or infirmity.”
Well being is a basic human proper and an integral part of financial growth, important to a nation’s financial development and inner stability.”
In recognition of Juneteenth:
