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D. L. Hughley: 'Everybody Knows' Independence Day Didn't Free Us All
NPR ^ | July 4, 2020 | Scott Simon

Posted on 07/04/2020 7:18:15 AM PDT by Stravinsky

July 4th is U.S. Independence Day. But D.L. Hughley, the comedian and author, suggests in his new book that all U.S. holidays "be put on a probationary period to ascertain their relevance and value to All Americans, acknowledging that days off are nice and that mattress sales must occur ..."

His book, co-written with Doug Moe of the Upright Citizens Brigade, is Surrender, White People! Our Unconditional Terms for Peace.

"I used to always tell this joke about, well, today, as we celebrate our Independence Day, well, not all of us," Hughley says. "Some of us weren't free for a little while after that. But you know, anything for time-and-a-half and a slab of baby backs. But it's just one of those inconveniences that we tolerate because ... people don't want to upset a story. And it's one of those things ... everybody knows it's not true. Everybody knows Christopher Columbus didn't discover America. Everybody knows Thanksgiving is a little bit more sinister than we celebrate it as. But it's kind of our story in America. When you're Black in America, the best thing you can develop is a sense of amnesia ... we shouldn't have Google and we shouldn't be able to access the truth, because that's the only way that you can kind of make sense out of all these things."

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


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1 posted on 07/04/2020 7:18:15 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Stravinsky

So we should all be slaves to the state under communism?


2 posted on 07/04/2020 7:20:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Stravinsky

in the immortal words of john lennon...

‘YOU’D BETTER FREE YOUR MIND INSTEAD!”


3 posted on 07/04/2020 7:20:08 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (Democrats are not the enemy, Republicans are not your friends. We're on our own folks!)
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To: Stravinsky

Just when I thought there might be hope for NPR...after they ran a piece questioning the wisdom of,the need for,this lockdown...they release this cr@p.


4 posted on 07/04/2020 7:20:33 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: Samurai_Jack
And if go carryin’ pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow
5 posted on 07/04/2020 7:21:57 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: Stravinsky

Yes. It freed us all. There are no slaves still alive.


6 posted on 07/04/2020 7:22:38 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Stravinsky

It freed “most of us” though. One step at a time.


7 posted on 07/04/2020 7:24:18 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Stravinsky

If white people surrender, they’ll kill us all.


8 posted on 07/04/2020 7:25:03 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Stravinsky

The first one to mention race is the racist.

A lot of people in the US didn’t feel very “free” back then. Why do you think so many people headed west? There was a lot of crap going on in the cities of the Northeast.

There are as many stories about life in the US as there are people. And sometimes race played a part and sometimes it didn’t. As with all countries. Japan is arguably the most xenophobic nation on the planet. Maybe a bunch of black people should move there and protest.


9 posted on 07/04/2020 7:25:28 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Stravinsky

Does dildo brain know that the first official slave owner in America was a black man?


10 posted on 07/04/2020 7:25:49 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: Stravinsky

Listen up, punk - I never owned slaves and you never picked any cotton. Go to Hell.


11 posted on 07/04/2020 7:25:50 AM PDT by dainbramaged (That information is classified. Request denied.)
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To: Stravinsky

Maybe he should move to another country.


12 posted on 07/04/2020 7:26:52 AM PDT by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: Stravinsky
To some people, the glass is always 1/10th empty.
13 posted on 07/04/2020 7:27:59 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Stravinsky

When you’re Black in America, the best thing you can develop is a sense of amnesia and try to Forget that YOUR ANCESTORS SOLD YOU INTO SLAVERY!!!


14 posted on 07/04/2020 7:28:18 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Stravinsky

Quite a few years ago when this POS, uh, POC had a tv show we thought while in Vegas we would catch his live show. WOW! Most hateful racist crap I’ve ever heard. We left early. A disgusting POS would be too kind. Guess who AIN’T oppressed. DL.


15 posted on 07/04/2020 7:29:06 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Stravinsky; All
The author should answer two questions.

Where are black people treated better than in the United States?

Why do you want to destroy the system that made better lives possible for Black people than anywhere else in the world?

16 posted on 07/04/2020 7:29:42 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Stravinsky

Just STFU - YOU have always been free. I have never owned slaves.


17 posted on 07/04/2020 7:29:42 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Texas Eagle

People like him are going to keep saying this kind of crap as long as there are enough people with White Guilt who will listen.


18 posted on 07/04/2020 7:30:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Stravinsky
Do any of these people ever sit back and contemplate what this world would look like if The United States of America never came into existence?

No, of course not. That was a stupid question. Forget I asked it.

19 posted on 07/04/2020 7:31:01 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: notaliberal
Author of this article... DL Hughley


20 posted on 07/04/2020 7:31:33 AM PDT by caww
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