JUNETEENTH: "Delayed But Not Denied!

 

"Who the Lord sets 
free is free indeed..."  
(John 8:36)

🎵We've come this far by faith, leaning on the Lord, trusting in His Holy Word, He's never failed us yet..Oh, Oh, can't turn around, we've come this far by faith!🎵

There's something about these old Gospel songs that not only take us back  to our spiritual roots but also reminds us of our historical ones! Albert A. Goodson, the author of this wonderful hymn was a musician in the Pentecostal faith far from the racism of America's South but not far enough from its impact!

Even in Los Angeles, California, where he grew up and the Great Migration took six million Black folks from the oppressed South to lesser oppressed North there was no escaping our tortured past.  Yet, through it all...hope remained.  Encouraged by these songs and God's Word that inspired them our ancestors claimed FREEDOM in the midst of the NOT YET!  

The enslaved Negroes of Texas waited two years for freedom after the signing of the Emancipation  Proclamation in 1863! They waited, ignorantly, legally free, but still in bondage to the masters of their bodies and minds!  My Brothers and Sisters 159 YEARS LATER ARE WE GUILTY OF THE SAME!?

WHAT IS TRUE FREEDOM?

🎉We Celebrate JUNETEENTH with Food, Concerts and Parades....WILL YOU TURN OUT TO VOTE THIS NOVEMBER?!

🎉We Celebrate JUNETEENTH with a day off  from work. But do our children know the sacrifices of their ancestors who died in the Civil Rights Struggle.  DO THEY KNOW THEIR HISTORY?!

🎉We Celebrate JUNETEETH with colorful tee shirts proclaiming our Black Pride, while spending our dollars at Amazon, Temu and Shein. DO WE SUPPORT BLACK BUSINESSES?!

🎉We Celebrate JUNETEENTH with our Sorors and Frat brothers at HBCUs and Elite universities. BUT CAN THEY NAME THE 12 DISCIPLES OR ANY OF THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE!?

OUR VOTE, OUR MONEY, OUR GOD!

There was a time when these things mattered! We have what we have now because of the Good Trouble that Medgar Evans, Martin Luther King, and Viola Liuzzo died to give us. The right to live, work, and use our votes to elect leaders who put our interest before their own! Leaders chosen by God not political parties. (Click Here) Romans 13:1

There was a time when we shopped in our own neighborhoods, bought food and dry goods from folks who looked like us.  We weren't followed around in stores, or had someone stand on a platform surrounded by security mirrors trying to catch up stealing! We spent money on things of value, had life insurance, and saved to leave something for the next generation! (Click Here) Proverbs 3:9-10 

There was a time when the only Drugs children knew about was when they were: Drug to church every Sunday; Drug to school everyday; Drug around the house to learn hard work and how to earn a living: cleaning, cutting grass, and fixing things! They learned honesty, integrity, social manners, and respect for GOD, THE PEOPLE OF GOD, IN THE HOUSE OF GOD!  TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON GOD AND NOT EBT!  (Click Here) Deuteronomy 6:4-8

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JUNETEENTH A TIME OF CELEBRATION 

JUNETEENTH A TIME OF REMEMBRANCE

AND FOR MANY OF US, A TIME OF REPENTANCE

    (LET'S REALLY START HONORING OUR ANCESTRAL PAST)

UNTIL NEXT TIME...

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