“Juneteenth Lives Forever”

Juneteenth is here forever.

I love being a humanist black, and Juneteenth is what it’s all about.

After 400 years of Chattel Slavery, makes blacks and others jump, scream, and shout.

The impossible, unbelievable stop of slavery, really makes me sing.

Like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King.

The list of sung and unsung heroes is endless, do you all really hear me?

Blacks suffered blood, sweat, tears, and death to finally set us free.

Countless black men, women, children and families got the job done.

Even some god-fearing whites lost their lives, so we can all live as one.

To finally wake up from the nightmare trauma of blacks being slaves.

We, the living, are celebrating as our ancestors cheer in their graves.

Blacks cry with ancestral tears, of ongoing heartfelt appreciation for the unsung spiritual black slaves who actually built this god fearing great nation.

No more KKK Government, “Only Dogs Allowed,” or not allowing blacks in,

Like going to a movie, concert, store or musical, without my white best friend.

Where would the whole world be, tell me, without the accomplishments of blacks?

People saying “Heil Hitler” to a white man, because no one in the world is black?

I can’t imagine an all-white media owned by the Ku Klux Klan or all awards being presented to white women, their children and only the white man.

Blacks,

—others,

—fought,

—died,

—kept hope alive.

—stand strong,

—no more fear.

No more white slaves Massa, hear me?

Black’s greatness is still here.

It’s all about God, family, real black history, and the black family tree.

Our human rights for justice and liberty for blacks and moral equality.

So, let’s all celebrate our black family reunion in a musical world symphony, “Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heaven rings,” in humanitarian harmony.

Black’s presence of greatness truly exists on all levels of society.

If Juneteenth had not actually occurred, no world would America be.

Racist Texas laws got changed by Ms. Rosa Parks, sitting on a bus.

Slaves, blacks, and money in America saying, “Only in God we Trust.”

Without Juneteenth, “c’mon,” really? Where would this whole world be?

It’s like viewing the Thrilla in Manila fight, without George Foreman and Mohammed Ali.

Now, I could go on speaking about Juneteenth in a way that’s very clever,

But like I said from the very start of this poem,

Juneteenth is here forever!

by Joseph Nichols, June 15, 2024.