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The Emancipation Support Committee has officially blessed the grounds for this year's Emancipation celebrations, as preparations continue for August 1st. While recognising the progress made since the abolition of slavery, organisers say the work of achieving true emancipation is far from over. Rynessa Cutting has more.
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00:21We must continue to carry on that journey of emancipation.
00:27Yes, those of us who are here, we have a responsibility as well to continue to uplift our people, to
00:35continue to fight because the struggle is real.
00:38It continues to be real and let us not be fooled by the facade of what we perceive to be
00:44liberation.
01:01Our education of our children is still not what it needs to be so that they can find that for
01:07liberation.
01:08Our travel is not what it should be.
01:11We still have to go all over the place if we want to go home to the continent.
01:15We're still trying.
01:16There are efforts being made, but that struggle continues.
01:20Business is not designed in a way to facilitate and to assist us.
01:27So we have to continue to find our own pathways and continue to struggle in that regard.
01:32And every aspect of the festival attempts to address all of these different aspects of our liberation, of our full
01:43liberation.
01:55It's not a one-day thing.
01:56It does not happen within a day or two, a month or a year.
02:04It is over 400 years.
02:06Yes!
02:08It is over 500 years!
02:11It is over 400 years!
02:16Yes!
02:16It is over 91 years!
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