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Teach the children the reason in the midst of our Global Juneteenth Freedom Party

by Ser Seshsh Ab Heter-CM Boxley
President Barack Obama will celebrate the Sesquicentennial Celebration of Juneteenth near the Royal Fortress of Saint Frances. The "unknown" California Juneteenth Story awaits official permission to share the authentic legacy hidden within the California State Archives and California State Library. Honorable Mervyn M. Dymally shared the positive way forward available for reconsideration (AB 59 2003) reconnecting the blood stained shores of the Gullah Geeche Low Country to the Golden Gate of San Francisco documented in the California Colored Conventions. May your presidential proclamation guide us toward the next 150 years of freedom. KMH
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Juneteenth Manifesto Number 6… by Ser Seshsh Ab Heter-CM Boxley Natchez Mississippi

June 18, 2015

Over the past several dozen years from California to Mississippi my person have issued public manifestos prescribing directions for inclusion in Juneteenths commemorations and celebrations.

At the heart of each of the manifestations is: Juneteenth presents the opportunity for African Descent folks in the America(s) to emphasize the MAAFA or holocaust of African people going all the way back to the time of Arabic and European invasions in Africa.

• It’s a time to educate and commemorate, not just project a time for partying and entertainment vs edu-tainment.

• It’s a time to emphasize the eleven hundred years of strangers invading Africa from Arabia and Europe ripping off Africa’s young males and females and raw natural materials for the benefit of Arabia, Europe and the Americas.

• It’s a time to highlight the “destruction of African Civilizations and a Way of spiritual life based upon invasions, wars, seductions and religion conversions.

• It’s a time to highlight the raw natural materials stolen from Africa without paying a fair price that benefited and still benefits western world nations today.

• It’s time to emphasize how our African Foreparents and Ancestors survived so today we their descendants are the sum total of all our African beginnings.

• It’s a time to make offerings and libations in our Ancestors and Foreparents honor for their humanity denied during the “Atlantic Slave Trafficking” and chattel enslavement in the Americas.

• It’s time to talk about how after being enslaved and oppressed in America from 1619 to 1865 we should have been completely dehumanized and inferior as the oppressors intended by making our Foreparents and Ancestors “chattel slaves” and conditioning their minds (thereby we their descendants must repair and make reparations ourselves).

• It’s time to show and tell what the greatest generations of enslaved and non-enslaved African descent people from all over the world (wherever “Black” people were) did during the Civil War to self-emancipate and decisively help the United States to defeat the Confederate South during that Civil War.

• It’s time to let the world know that during the Civil War the: resistance, defiance, determination for freedom, self-emancipation and military support and actions by mainly ages 12-40 years enslaved persons was the “greatest slave rebellion” in the history of the Americas.

• It’s time to stop telling folk that Juneteenth in Texas was the “end of slavery” in America. It was the ending of chattel slavery in Texas.

• Juneteenth is not the oldest freedom from chattel slavery happening in America.

• It is said that the Emancipation Proclamation effective January 1, 1863 exempted roughly a half million enslaved African descendants in the south who were freed by the 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution in 1865. (For example in New Orleans chattel slavery was abolished on May 11, 1864)

• There were enslaved people in all the southern states that did not and were not freed from chattel slavery until after Juneteenth.

• December 1865 the 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution abolished chattel slavery in America.

• Mississippi did not approve of the 13th amendment until sometime in the 1990s.

• Since Texas was part of Mexico’s territory, Mexico abolished slavery several times before the U. S. finally did.

• The Alamo fight was about expanding Chattel slavery in Texas, just as the Civil War was about Chattel slavery. “Forget the Alamo, remember Mexico.”

• It’s time for folks to know that Juneteenth came to Texas only with the defeat of the Confederate south in other than Texas happened. The Union Army did not defeat the Confederates in Texas and parts of western Louisiana.

• Juneteenth throughout Texas (Brazos Santiago, Galveston)and western Louisiana (Alexandria and Shreveport) happened in the month of June in 1865 when the Union Army, mostly U. S. Colored Troops Regiments, was sent out west after the surrender of the Confederate south, to secure the United States boarders along Mexico from Louisiana to Arizona, to keep the defeated President of the Confederacy from escaping to Mexico and have the French help him continue the Civil War against the U. S. (say viva Cinco de Mayo...Mexico’s defeat of the French in 1862).

• Freedom came to western Louisiana and in Texas with the arrival of the Union Army, most of who were U. S. Colored Troops/sailors.

• Enslaved people in Texas did know about the Civil War right from the beginning just as enslaved and non-enslaved people knew about it and the emancipation proclamation all over the U. S. and throughout the world.

• Many enslaved persons ranaway from their places of enslavement in Texas to freedom during the war and many others ranaway and joined the Union Army, so stop telling people enslaved folks did not know about the emancipation proclamation until the Union Army showed up in Galveston Texas on June 19th, 1865 and read the general order number 3.

• It’s time to have Civil War living history re-enactors present at all Juneteenth celebrations showing and telling the stories of what and how the greatest generations of enslaved and non-enslaved “black” people heroically fought to gain their own freedom and liberated other enslaved people all over the south.

• It is most respectful to honor our Foreparents and Ancestors who fought for their and our freedom from chattel slavery signified by the time Juneteenth freedom was possible.

• Note: Sam Collins III wore a Union replica Civil War uniform at his Juneteenth program on June 13, 2015 in Hitchcock Texas. Ser Boxley was invited and wore the uniform of the U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery as he told the story of how U. S. Colored Troops , sailors, nurses and civilians helped to make Juneteenth liberation of enslaved people in Texas possible.

• If you don’t have the living history re-enactors available, then dress up the Union uniforms, nurse and civilian period clothing yourselves as planners and organizers of Juneteenths.

• It’s time to tell and show how enslaved and non-enslaved “Blacks” made it possible for Juneteenth Freedom and 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments 19th century Civil Rights for the masses of Black people for the first time in the history of the United States, which started us as a people in America “up from slavery.”

• It’s time to tell that it was Africans who helped build the Americas.

• It was Africa where the cultures, arts, music, dance, spirituality, justice morality, freedom, family and so on came from.

• That Africans in Americas used European instruments, institutions and language to produce who we are and what we have in the Americas today.

• You can take Africans out of Africa, but you can’t take Africa out of Africans in the Americas.

• It’s time to re-emphasized in the south, enslaved people became our first school students, teachers, preachers, politicians, leaders, community developers, head of family households and so on.

• Juneteenth is the special time to push for reparations and the reparations bill that Congressman John Conyers and others have been trying to get to the floor for a vote in the U. S. Congress.

• Once you get us out to the Juneteenth Freedom Party, stop the party in the middle and start the edu-tainment with our current struggle and work back to Africa where we were free and independent before the strangers show up in Africa and in our families.

• Juneteenth is the “mother/father” of all Freedom Parties in America for Black folks. However, your own local freedom parties other than Juneteenth must be held or incorporated so local people will learn how freedom from chattel slavery happened locally.

• Inform the music people, rappers and other performers to play music, rap, and act out the ourstories that inner-attain the points for Juneteenth listed above.

RECONCILE AFTER ARRESTING OPPRESSORS, CORRECTING THEIR BEHAVIOR AND AFTER REPARATIONS-RETRIBUTIONS, MAYBE!
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