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 ...
Unfortunately, yes.
Dr. Who?
This ass is enslaved by the confines of his own narrow, closed mind.
Sorry author of the book he’s quoting
And MLK day has no relevance to me, and Labor day has no relevance to me, and Juneteeth has no relevance to me, and .....
Why does this idiot believe that a national holiday has to be special for everyone?
And that if they hadn't sold them into slavery, they would have killed them, and you would not exist.
Most blacks in America would not exist if they ancestors had not been sold into slavery by other blacks, and if their slave ancestors did not have the great good fortune to become slaves in the territory to become the United States; slaves elsewhere usually died without producing children.
No one was freed on Independence Day.
On July 4, 1776 the Continental Congress signed a declaration of war.
They put the king and parliament of Great Britain on notice that the American Colonies would have to be beaten into submission if Britain intended to keep them under the dominion of the King.
The United States would fight another 8 years to gain their independence.
RedTards seem to know everything except where there is a better country.
Newsflash youre all free now whether you choose to be or not
He is of course correct. Independence day established the independence of 13 colonies from the British crown.
The act did not free the thousands of indentured white workers from their contracts of employment
It was the starting point of freedom for all.
Of course, one could argue that the 16th Amendment enslaved us all, but that’s a different topic.
Yeah, but it started us down the path to it, Dickhead!
Wow, he has not aged well. Bitterness is not a good look.
After the historical precidents of the soviet union, pol pot, and more recently, venezuela, one would think that supposedly "oppressed" contemporary black Americans would know better than to fight FOR a return to wearing chains.
But when you erase history you get terrorist mobs like blm and antifa.
Or is it 3/5 ths empty?
Simon is a smug a-hole that is so uber evolved and precious. I listen and laugh every time he talks about Pres Trump and sighs dramatically.
Forgotten in all of this is the Civil War that many white soldiers died to free the slave population and provide an opportunity for independence that doesn’t exist in many countries.
There are no Thanks being offered for this as our country evolved. Just a grudge that is used to push a narrative that all “ non color” are bigots even though their are more and more inter racial families living in a free country.
I have long pointed to The Beatles Revolution song as the anti-stupid liberal Anthem.
So many examples of how so-called Liberals can completely screw up everyone’s lives.
But if you want money for people with minds that hate, all I can tell you is brother you’ll have to wait
THAT should be how everyone judges BLM today
And here I thought that independence day was about one country breaking away from the clutches of another country.
It never occurred to me that it was about personal freedoms or ending slavery, though that would’ve been a nice bonus.
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