Throughout our history, those determined to preserve a government that discriminates between Americans according to race, gender, religion, ability, embraced the idea that democracy requires skewing the vote toward the wealthy and white men. They have also insisted, as former Confederates did in the late 1860s, that laws protecting the equal rights of minorities discriminate against the white majority. Today, those voices are, returning, 160 years after Juneteenth was established, we are in danger of losing the new nation that it celebrated, one that would honor the equality of all Americans.