by Ser Seshsh Ab Heter-CM Boxley,

Natchez Mississippi

June 9, 2011

Over the past several dozens 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 our African beginnings.

It’s a time to make offerings and libations in our Ancestors and Foreparents honor for their humanity denied during chattel enslavement.

It’s time to talk about how after being enslaved and oppressed in America from 1619 to 1863 we should have been completely dehumanized and inferior as the oppressors intended by making our Foreparents and Ancestors “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 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 during the Civil War.

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

The were enslaved people in all the southern states that did not were not freed from chattel slavery until after Juneteenth. The 13^th Amendment abolished slavery. Mississippi did not approve of the 13^th amendment until some time 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 slavery, just as the Civil War was about slavery. 

It’s time for folks to know that Juneteenth came to Texas only with the defeat of the Confederate south in other than Texas (the Union Army never defeated the Confederates in Texas and parts of western Louisiana) and when the Union Army 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 19^th, 1865 and read the general order.

It’s time to have Civil War re-enactors present at Juneteenth celebrations showing and telling the stories of what and how the greatest generations of enslaved and non-enslaved “black” people helped gain their own freedom. If you don’t have the re-enactors available, then done the uniforms 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 13^th, 14^th and 15^th Amendments 19^th century Civil Rights 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 culture, arts, music, dance, spirituality, justice morality, freedom, family and so on came from, that Africans in Americas used European instruments, institutions and language to produced 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 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 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.

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

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

Our enslaved and non-enslaved African descendants Ancestors and Foreparents saved our behind from being physically enslaved today, so who do you give honor, glory and credit to other than them, if that source had nothing to do with saving us from being physically enslaved today?