Lecrae, Maverick City Music - Side A: Juneteenth (Intro) lyrics

Juneteenth
I know many people don't
Know what Juneteenth is
Let me give you a second
So you can understand
What Juneteenth is
And — on June nineteenth
Alright, in — in — in 1865
Everybody was supposed
To be free, but there was
Uh
Some people
Who didn't know they were free
In Texas, the people of Texas
They— They— They didn't know
Slavery was over
So if everybody's not free
Then nobody's free
Amen?
And so on July fourth
There were certain people who
Could not celebrate independence
Their independence came on June nineteenth
And so we can sit here and say
"Man, we love the freedom that we
Get to experience as believers"
But there's certain people out
There that— that don't
Have the freedom that we get to experience
And we want them to experience that as well
Well, in 1865
Everybody needed to experience the freedom
That they should have gotten and
They didn't get that
And so in this day and age
We wanna celebrate everyone's freedom
We wanna celebrate the reality that
God created us equal
That we are all humanity
That we are all God's children
And we all deserve to enjoy
To taste and see that God is good
Nobody should have that deprived of them
And so that's why we're here today
We're here to celebrate the
Reality that, man
God's people were set free
They were set free
Goodness and mercy pursued them and
They were set free
They were liberated and that's
Something that we celebrate
If we can celebrate July fourth
We got to celebrate Juneteenth
And so, y'all
It— it's so much bigger than that
Because we're not just celebrating days
We're celebrating that image-bearers
People made in the image of God
Could now now taste and see how good God is
Could now dance in the streets together
Hold hands
And it— it wasn't complete freedom
It— It obviously takes a minute
But we're still here today to
Work toward that reality
We're here today to celebrate what
Our ancestors couldn't celebrate
Right?
And we're here today to celebrate
A — a bigger reality
That even though some of us have been
Removed from slavery in an instant
That sometimes it takes a lifetime to
Get the slavery out of us
Sometimes that mentality still has to
Be removed from us
And— And— And there are people here today
Black and brown faces
Who need to believe that they are free
That they— That they have the same rights
The same liberty that God has given everybody
And you know how they experience that?
By— By love being demonstrated
By empathy being demonstrated
By graciousness being demonstrated
By everyone being treated
As God's image-bearers