Joy Reid Instagram – Elections matter. Voting MATTERS. Especially in your state. Well done Kentucky in keeping this man as your governor. Had the Republican won none of this would be happening because he would have been as performatively anti-Black as he was on the #breonnataylor case. #andybeshear . Repost from @thegrio • Kentucky Gov. #AndyBeshear designated #Juneteenth as a holiday for state executive branch workers on Thursday and expanded protections in state hiring and employment by banning discrimination based on hairstyles. The separate executive orders signed by the Democratic governor represented his latest outreach to Black Kentuckians — but also reflected limits to that outreach. Beshear, seen as a rising Democratic star, took the actions after efforts to make Juneteenth a statewide holiday and outlaw discrimination based on hairstyles failed in the state’s Republican-supermajority legislature. “After years of inaction, I’ve decided I can no longer wait for others to do what is right,” said Beshear. For more, visit theGrio.com.