JUNETEENTH 2023

CATEGORY

                    PART ONE

(Apropos Of Being Updated And Elated)

Wow, from 1863 to 2023!

She’s fully here and it’s time 

For us to celebrate in perspective

Who and what we celebrate and praise:-

Yes, the delayed dismantling of slavery

Was a well orchestrated social, political,

And economical classical deceptive strategy

Of one of the Republican Party’s great thinkers.

“Mr. Lankcon” actually began ruminating emancipation

As far back as 11/1862, before issuing such on 01/01/1863;

Pontificating his powers to gradually do so as Commander-

In-Chief, striving to maintain the power of his party’s domain:-

Know that their own history—in Ourstory—unapologetically

Reveals that his scheme was to be a gradual compensation ploy

Designed to maintain Union power and weaken Pantation power

Belief that slave labor freed southern white men to fight for power.

Thus, be it known that “Mr. Lankon’s” plan was all about him and his

And their combined efforts to maintain political control and prevent

A Civil War—a war to determine political national power control,

Rather than an internal battle to save and emancipate slaves.

Thus, in reality, with this update for you and me, let it be known

That on JUNETEENTH, 2023—we gather to celebrate—in essence

The Black abolitionism that forced the actual proclamation issuing

Of the gradual reality of accepting Blacks were/are on God’s battlefield.

Indeed, let it now be known—as ever was—and shall ever be—a celebration

For and of all those who dedicated their lives to ensuring our emancipation:

Let us celebrate the likes of Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglas,

Harriet Tubman, Paul Cuffee, Francis Harper all our other Sheroes and heroes:-

               PART TWO

(DELAYED BUT NOT DISMAYED

This is the day the Lord has made;

Let us rejoice and celebrate

Because we’re still here…marching on

With our eyes stayed on the prize.

Let us rejoice and celebrate

Because we’re aware that we are not

The children of Sisyphus; rather,

We are the children of the Womb of Africa;

We are the children of the Middle Passage;

We are the children of Jacob’s Ladder;

We are the children of the Exodus;

We are the children of the Cross;

We are the children of the Emancipated;

We are the children of the Resurrection;

We are the children of the Trinity.

So let us celebrate, lifting every voice singing:

“Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me ‘round,

Gonna keep on a’walking, keep on a’talking,

Marching up to freedom land.”

Yes, we are the children of world liberation.

In every war for the liberation of others,

We’ve always been those wars’ “point soldiers”:

Fighting for the rights of others while for us,

Freedom, justice, and equality remained a dream.

At last…at last…the world now joins us,

Fighting the greatest enemy of all times

Here in America where racism has now become

The living reality of that which has only been

A brief homily voided of the complete allegorical

Teaching message embedded in the Good Samaritan.

So come, Brothers and Sisters, let us celebrate

Reconciling ourselves with each other here at home;

Celebrating on the “battlefield of the Lord” realizing

That our freedom—like our house in heaven—Our

Freedom is not made with hands but is fought and won

Through divine guidance and a will, death can’t destroy.

Come, ye children of God, let us gather and celebrate!

Let us celebrate on the Gulf Coast and plains of Texas!

Let us celebrate along the bayous and lakes of Louisiana!

Let us celebrate over the mountains of Tennessee and

Georgia!

Let us celebrate from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Shockoe

Bottoms In Virginia!

Let us celebrate across the hills and fields of Alabama and

Mississippi!

Let us celebrate in Tulsa and throughout all of Oklahoma!

Come, ye children of God, let us gather and celebrate!

Let us celebrate from the shores of the Pacific to the shores

of the Atlantic!

Let us celebrate from the snow covered grounds of Alaska to 

The sands of Hawaii!

And when we have celebrated let us make it clear

To our racist oppressors that we’ve not been distracted

From the journey towards our complete liberation; but that

We paused to take a celebratory breath towards journeying on.

160 years later, we’re aware that Emancipation and equality— 

Along with liberty—are yet to be considered true synonyms:-