Nikole Hannah-Jones: ‘Independence Day has always been very complex for Black Americans’

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'Black people were not free on Independence Day,' Nikole Hannah-Jones says. 'When the colonists decided that they needed to break off from Britain in order to become free themselves, they held one fifth of the population in bondage.'

 

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Which society / country around the world did not practice Slavery (of all races)? Better question: which countries abolished slavery? And how long did it take them to do it?

And then what happened?

all of Europe still practiced Slavery when the Declaration of Independence was written, so what’s your point? should we ban any celebration of ending WWII since Europeans were the ones who started enslaving Africans? maddow Lawrence

Free now?

Fighting divisiveness with more divisiveness, because that's going to help everyone to get along...

It's been over 150 years since the civil war. African Americans are the freest and most successful on the planet. You should be grateful to be an American.

I am a LIFE-LONG Democrat.....BUT I would PREFER KANYE over orange dude as a president any day! KANYE would be LIGHT-YEARS better as a president! CRAY CRAY seems to be the THEME now anyway!

The dems /liberals are a joke .

And hair color has also been very complex for Nikole

Thanks for the history lesson?

Waaa! Is she culturally appropriating red hair. She needs canceled!!

and then 500,000 white Union soldiers died to free them.

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaa get the hell over it. Concentrate on Now.

BLACK LIBERALS NEED TO LEAVE AMERICA!!!

I thought blondes were ignorant. 🤔 well I guess that goes for fake red heads too.

The level of intelligence of your typical democrat voter 🤡

One step at a time

And within one generation of becoming a nation fought its bloodiest war to abolish slavery and hold true to its founding principles. God bless America. The greatest good the world has ever known. 🇺🇸

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