<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A New American South: Impressions from the Front Porch on Juneteenth</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">When the South says revival </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Does it mean black homecomings and </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">voices so loud and proud that they break </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the chained resistance of the enslaved horror? </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">When the South says revival </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">does revolution find its way? </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Black cookouts are Camelot </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">in the South— </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Celebrations despite </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the forked tongues that pressed cruelty </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">when the South said survival, </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead of reparation.</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Salaam Green</span></body></html>