Gratitude Day #19: The Nineteenth of June by Drew Jackson

Join Hyatt for Day 19 of the Gratitude Challenge as he shares how he is grateful for Juneteenth by reading The Nineteenth of June by Drew Jackson.

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Welcome to the bevy podcast on the bevy podcast, we have fun, thoughtful conversations with friends. Pull a seat up to the table. Come chill with us. what's up. What's up. What's up. It is day 19 of the gratitude challenge. It's also Juneteenth happy June teeth. And so today we celebrate June team. And for those of you don't know. On June 19th, 1865. Just about two months after the Confederate general. Robert E. Lee surrendered at APA Maddix, Virginia. According Granger. Uh, union general arrived in Galveston, Texas to inform enslaved African-Americans of their freedom and that the civil war had ended. General Granger's announcement put into effect the emancipation proclamation, which had been issued nearly two and a half years earlier on January 1st, 1863 by president Abraham Lincoln. So what I thought I would do today. For our gratitude challenge is to read a poem. Bye poet theologian, drew Jackson. His poem really does a wonderful job of summing up the essence of this. Holiday and invites us to think about how we might in our own individual lives and collective. Wives. Strive for greater freedom. In our present and In our future I wonder. What it would have been like to hear it. The war has ceased your free. What I laugh it off as some sick joke. What I shout so loud, it would shake. The branches of the nearby Oak tree. What my feet start moving with uncontrollable glee. When my legs start running straight toward the golden sun. Would I began screaming obscenities at that old plantation. I still wonder. What it will be like to hear it. The war has ceased your free. What will happen when that news reaches Rikers? How will it sound when it echoes off the walls of project halls? What will it do when it sweeps through the wilderness of food deserts? We like dance. When I hear my city is no longer over police. Well, I cry tears of joy when it's announced that I's no longer. Criminalized by body. I am still waiting to hear it. The war has ceased. Your free. So. That. Again, ladies and gentlemen is uh, poetry selection from through Jackson. Hope you all enjoy this freedom day. Continue to do the work Till next time. Take it easy Peace