Expensive Future Us,
It’s Juneteenth, 2025. This yr, we embrace the promise of legacy and the unimaginable journey that started with freedom declared.
Fifty years from now, we hope you’re not simply surviving—we hope you’re redefining the phrase thriving in a means that really embodies the progress we envision. We hope you’re residing in neighborhoods you personal, working in companies you constructed, and elevating households with ample alternatives, not limiting obstacles. We hope you’re discovering peace, having fun with life’s easy joys, and crafting the following chapter of our collective brilliance, feeling free in additional methods than we might’ve imagined.
Right here in 2025, we acknowledge the trail nonetheless earlier than us. We’re regularly studying, rising, and rebuilding. There are moments of problem and profound reflection that strengthen our resolve every day. Simply as our ancestors awaited the information of their freedom, at present we navigate evolving landscapes, working towards a future the place justice prospers, fairness is realized, and fact prevails. We’re persistently laying the groundwork for constructive change.
Whereas freedom was declared in 1865, and later solidified with the thirteenth Modification, each technology since has been actively defining what that freedom actually means and securing it. Juneteenth stands as our annual checkpoint, a sacred second the place the echoes of yesterday encourage the aspirations of tomorrow. It’s a time for us to have fun the journey and renew our collective dedication.
We’re targeted on constructing a basis for future prosperity. We’re saving extra, proudly owning extra, and instilling the values of sound monetary practices and robust group ties in our youngsters. We’re proactively nurturing our psychological and monetary well-being. We’re additionally reclaiming time for ourselves—as a result of relaxation is an important a part of sustained progress—and our power is a useful resource to be properly managed, not endlessly spent.
This Juneteenth, we’re concentrating on progress and group enrichment. Whereas we’ve got at all times illuminated paths to progress, this yr, we’re particularly investing in ourselves and pouring into our neighborhoods. We’re devoted to constructing futures that our grandchildren will proudly inherit.
True freedom and lasting prosperity aren’t achieved in a single day. There could also be days that take a look at our braveness and problem our confidence. Nevertheless, we promise to proceed bravely studying from the previous and passionately constructing for the longer term.
Signed,
OneUnited Financial institution