Notes About The Poem
To commemorate the end of slavery in the United States
The holiday's name, first used in the 1890s,
is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth,
referring to June 19, 1865, on this day
Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final
enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas
at the end of the American Civil War
An affirmation of how precious democracy really is~
As long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on earth is my story even possible. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts that out of many, we are truly one—Barack Obama
Clerihew Barack Obama
First Black President of the United States of America, Barack Obama
Altruist in politics, he being one of the fewest, Obama no drama
Aloha spirited & elegance, known for The Affordable Care Act
#47 tries to taketh away, bet by now you wished #44 was back
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