May we remember that today is Juneteenth, the date when two years after they were legally freed, hundreds of Afrocentric people finally learned of their legislated freedom.

They were free, and still disenfranchised as all people who formerly owned Afrocentric people received compensation from the government for the loss of their human property, while the formerly legally enslaved people have yet to receive compensation for their loss of dignity or their loss of the ability to live as themselves to build reasonably profitable lives.

Legislation did not then, and has still not magically transformed the minds of the masses regarding the social hierarchy and worth of formerly enslaved people.

We live with that legacy of dehumanization to this day. We experience it daily with a prolonged campaign of systemic gaslighting to convince us that we are insane if we believe that open racism has been restructured to a more subtle caste system which continues the legacy of injustice.

Only conscious acceptance of this reality will create transformation.

Alcohol is truth serum for this person well positioned and respected in the social hierarchy.

The dream is that one day we will no longer bear this burden. In the meantime we will continue to sail with this atmospheric factor affecting our journey.