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By Alice Barden Suddenly, when I think of Juneteenth, I think of how commercial it has become. Will there be merch? Buy one get one free! Everything must go!? Mind you, I am not insisting on pure solemnity for Juneteenth but an orgy of sales like we now have on Cinco de Mayo and Memorial Day will be beyond offensive. I believe the import of Juneteenth is lost on most, if not all, of us. I feel that how we mark this day should be the start of a healing of the deepest wound in our society. And, yet it’s a day that arrives with little recognition of what it is we’re commemorating. For me, it’s st…