Black People, take a nap.

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Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to made for Mondays. I'm so glad you're tuned in with us today. It is June 19th or Juneteenth. And so let's jump into our convers this morning. Black people take a nap. Take a nap. Juneteenth is such an interesting holiday because it's a moment where we celebrate that we believe the last individuals in Texas found out that as slaves, they were free after slavery was abolished. Some years later, some people still didn't know. And then still in Texas, the last individuals found out that they were officially free. In this case now, as it's become very popular, especially in light of COVID some communities and cities like the one I live in now in California have been celebrating it for over 30 years. But some other communities really are just coming around the bend to honoring and celebrating Juneteenth. And one thing I didn't like about this Juneteenth is all of a sudden it becomes another day for breakfasts and prayer breakfasts and marches and meetings and all these different things where the reason we celebrate Juneteenth is black. We are free. Why are you working more in the communities where this is a holiday? In the communities where you get an opportunity to breathe, black people, take a nap, take a moment to really actually sit, not to reflect upon the past, not to reflect upon the community in Texas, not to reflect upon those individuals where slavery was abolished. If you want to, go right ahead. But I'm not challenging you to take time to reflect on that. I want you to take time to sit with the areas of your life where bondage has become comfortable and be free. I believe one of the issues that we have in our community is that we are so comfortable with bondage. We are so comfortable as black and brown black people not even going brown black people in bondage. We love mandatory. We love being told what to do. We love jobs that tell us when to come. We love being in bondage. And that's why when we sing certain scriptures and sing certain songs about freedom and we have to go back to slavery and not see freedom today. We love the chains of trauma instead of seeing the freedom and opportunity. So take a nap. Be free today to take a nap, to take a pause for you, to take a moment to look at yourself, to take a moment to be one with the father to take a moment to love who you are. To take a moment to love your friends, your family. Family. To take a moment to scroll through social media. To take a moment to read a book. To take a moment to record something. Take a moment today to stop black holidays. Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month. We are worn out and it becomes the same chains with the different systems, but the same color leaders wearing us out. So my podcast is short today because it's Juneteenth. My podcast is short today because I want to take a nap and I want you to do the same thing today as well. May this Juneteenth for you be a moment where the way you'll be made this week for Tuesday is because on Monday, you controlled it too. Have an amazing day.

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