What Robert Jones, Jr. thinks about happiness
American writer from Brooklyn; author of the novel The Prophets (2021); creator of the Son of Baldwin community and the Witness newsletter.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Robert Jones, Jr. has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading“Happy Juneteenth” is an oxymoron, since the promise it marks has been perpetually broken.
Their words“Happy Juneteenth” is a blistering oxymoron. For how does one find happiness in pretense, in an empty token, in a pact perpetually broken, in a claim relentlessly untrue?
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