Pricey 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 method that really embodies the progress we envision. We hope you’re dwelling in neighborhoods you personal, working in companies you constructed, and elevating households with considerable alternatives, not limiting obstacles. We hope you’re discovering peace, having fun with life’s easy joys, and crafting the subsequent chapter of our collective brilliance, feeling free in additional methods than we may’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 the moment we navigate evolving landscapes, working towards a future the place justice prospers, fairness is realized, and reality prevails. We’re persistently laying the groundwork for optimistic 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 rejoice the journey and renew our collective dedication.
We’re centered on constructing a basis for future prosperity. We’re saving extra, proudly owning extra, and instilling the values of sound monetary practices and robust neighborhood ties in our kids. We’re proactively nurturing our psychological and monetary well-being. We’re additionally reclaiming time for ourselves—as a result of relaxation is a crucial 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 development and neighborhood enrichment. Whereas we have now all the time 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 are usually not achieved in a single day. There could also be days that check our braveness and problem our confidence. Nonetheless, we promise to proceed bravely studying from the previous and passionately constructing for the long run.
Signed,
OneUnited Financial institution
