Far-left journalist Joy Reid said last week that Juneteenth is the true day that should be commemorated to celebrate American freedom, not July 4th, as she said no one she knows who's Black celebrates Independence Day.As Reid spoke with MS NOW analyst Alex Wagner on Reid's eponymous YouTube show, she revealed that while her White friends love to celebrate America’s Independence Day on the Fourth of July, "I can promise you, Black folks, we will take that day off, we will barbecue because we [are] off, but nobody Black I know is really excited about the 4th of July.""It is what Frederick Douglass said it is.It is the celebration of slaveholders who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to the crown, for their slave empire," she added.
"And that is what it is, I mean, if we're just being perfectly honest, whether you read the 1619 Project or not, you just have to understand that for Black people, particularly for African Americans, there's a duality to Fourth of July that is hard to reconcile if you think about it too much."She compared this to how Indigenous peoples of the North American continent feel about Thanksgiving, "So they're like, you know, it's not cute to us, but so y'all go ahead and celebrate your Thanksgiving.We're not giving thanks.
OK?" she quipped."And then Black people feel that way about Fourth of July."ILLINOIS REPARATIONS COMMISSION RELEASES LENGTHY REPORT OF STATE'S 'HARMS' AGAINST BLACK CITIZENSJoy Reid claimed that Black Americans will gladly have the day off work, but they do not identify with the celebrations of July 4th.
(Arturo Holmes/Getty)"Whereas Juneteenth to me is the real thing that Fourth of July is, because we really were not a democracy until we ended slavery," Reid said."And then we were really not a democracy until the people who lost the Civil War were finally forced to affirm and act upon the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, which they were not forced to do until the '60s.""By the way, late! Late!" Wagner agreed.Reid...