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July 4 is Different for African Americans, Black America
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
- African Americans have always been ambivalent about celebrating the nation's independence.
Frederick Douglass wrote, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" From slavery to Jim Crow to police brutality, some Black Americans see July 4 not as a patriotic celebration but as a day to get together with family and friends. Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross, Princeton University professor Dr. Lauren Wright and BNC Washington D.C. correspondent Bofta Yimam join Del Walters on "DC Today" to discuss the topic. Cross says she does not see the holiday the same way others in the country do because African Americans are still fighting for equal rights. Dr. Wright says there’s nothing more “quintessentially American” then questioning our country’s history.
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#FourthofJuly #IndependenceDay #BlackAmerica
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced---James Baldwin
So what you are saying is if we hope to wipe out this disease of Liberalism we need to confront it? Good to know!! LOL
@@tspecht610 Troll/bot--or are you from Idaho? Mississippi? Upstate New York? The Jersey shore? Please...listen do you hear that? The 1950's are calling you; th they miss you?
@@taoman85 I'm from California and I've watched liberalism destroy this state you don't believe me come look
@@linoleluminum2017 😂😂I'm not sure if you're serious or not. Ya know it's hard to take conservatives or any of their typical comments seriously.
If you can only feel tall,when someone else is kneeling--who got the problem? --Toni Morrison
If you are kneeling, why are you kneeling?
I'll never kneel for any man on this planet only kneel for God
@@tyronekim3506 Because your foot is on black people's neck.
@@cornellfinney2855 You make no sense at all. You should think before you respond.
James Earl Jones What an Actor,!!!!! what a GOD given VOICE
What is an “African American”? Just wondering cuz most “black” people in America aren’t from African or America
the black indians was the founding fathers.
You do know that the five major Indian tribes including Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians owned slaves?
@@11thHrProYesss-- some Indians did own slaves which is why I no longer feel guilty about celebrating Thanksgiving...I did at first until I did some research and discovered some Indians Tribes owned slaves as well✌
Yall making up all these holidays and guess who gets paid off of it
I agree with Ms. Yimam’s statement that we are in a battle. We are indeed in a battle; it is a spiritual battle. Pray for discernment so you don’t fall victim to the devil’s schemes to distract you and to cause you to hate God, yourself and your neighbor. 🙏🏾
That is all this race baiting and Liberal Agenda has brought to the world. I try to follow the teachings of the Bible but often am struggling with my own sins of the flesh. The Bible talks about a time when men will be lovers of self and brother will fight brother and chaos will ensue. I never imagined how that could ever happen but now I see it clearly. This new Progressive movement which is nothing less than an attack on the family unit, and working to divide people by race, class, country, etc is the Devils work. You can tell if an organization or group is good or evil by the fruit of it's labor. If they are pushing hate and divide and playing on people's emotions then they are 100% evil. Nothing about rioting and murdering and attacking innocent people is Godly. The far left who are in control of the media, social media, Big Tech, the Democrat Party, and half the Republican Party want us to all hate each other and want us to destroy America so they can implement their one world Government. America is the only country on the planet where the people are given such Constitutional rights and liberties and these people in control want to wipe that out.
The only solution to combat this is embracing one another with love and kindness and stop looking at what our ancestors did hundreds of years ago and focus on our blessings today. Regardless of Race or Gender there is no place in the world that would offer more opportunities and has a higher living standard. Blacks who are now American's because of their ancestors being sold into slavery are better off than blacks living in Africa so why should they be given reparations? Most people I know regardless of race feel the same as I do. They work hard for what they want and they don't believe in the lie of America being systemically racist.
@@tspecht610 👍🏾👍🏾
“…embracing one another with love and kindness.” Yes! This can be difficult to do, but God commands us to love our neighbor as ourselves. He gives us the ability to do difficult things such as this when we seek Him and ask for His help with things that are in His will.
@@tspecht610 Regarding your sins of the flesh (and we all have them!), submit to God and resist the devil and he will flee from you (James 4:7).
Remember when Jesus did this in Matthew 4:1-11.
Do it in that order, like Jesus did:
1) Submit to God, then 2) Resist the devil, and he will flee from you…..he will likely come back, but he will flee in that moment.
Luke 6:35-37
35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
What battle? Just live your damn life, and be grateful for all of the blessings that you receive as an American. Always whining.
People don't want to deal with the truth! It's called "cognitive dissonance"!
He's very out of touch....black people have been celebrating junteenth since at least 1970....( Probably earlier ....but that's my earliest memory of my hometown junteenth celebration..... didn't have to wait for anybody to "sign" it into a holiday. NO....NOT thanks to Joe Biden...smh
I guess u missed my point.... point is...it wasn't Biden who CAUSED us to celebrate the 19th....we were already doing it...the fact that people oppose it being a federal holiday.. well.... I guess it's ok to put racist, traitorous Confederate generals on federal military bases...but not ok for that same federal government to recognize the full emancipation of the people those traitorous Confederate generals were trying to keep down...... insane.
Juneteenth is just another holiday to get massive discounts on mattresses and other furniture
@@SandraMartinez-gv1yf ok and. Girl stay out of AA bysiness
It is different for SOME. We dont all feel the exact way on anything.
Thank you
We meaning who exactly who is we
JAMES EARL JONES SPOKE PERFECTLY ✊🏾💙💙🗽
Plus, nice job cutting Douglas speech short. He finished by praising the declaration and expressed great hope for the country because of the manner and people involved in its founding.
I celebrate the 4th, but there’s always this sinking feeling of what’s it was was like for black folk back then. Or even so many times when Americans were celebrating “freedom” during Jim Crow
Exactly, black ppl legally couldn't celebrate freedom until only 50 odd years ago which is crazy, I don't celebrate it, for me it's a day or mourning like Memorial Day, then I enjoy it on behalf of our dead ancestors to see how far we came, it defo isn't to celebrate freedom from the British
You can easily just go back to your grandparents time
Cereal Killa or we could destroy every remnant of slave owners and tyrants
Perfect timing given its the 5th!
Don't need their indepence day to get together with fam and friends. Psychologically we are still in chains
@write away huh
@write away hmm considering we work get a paycheck then turn right around and give it right back for rent car payment insurance lights food whom own those establishments ? We never left the plantation we just recieve an allowance to furnish our lifestyles unless you sign your own paycheck and live in a house you built with your own hands. And you don't no my life nor do I no yours so don't speculate.
@write away you have missed the entire point 👉
@write away You really think Trump was here to break the system. He was controlled opposition.
@@3hug3hug6 you are free to sign your own paycheck and build your own house here btw.
The 4th is just a day off of work and a family cookout for me.
I don't celebrate 4th of July it doesn't represent me
Same with most people. And they may go see fireworks, not because they're patriotic, but because it's fun and the kids like it. It's just something to do, to break the routine, it's not that serious
@@kpk547 “Some Americans will never appreciate America, until after they have helped destroy it, and have then begun to suffer the consequences.” Thomas Sowell
I guess you weren’t born in this country then.
@@a.d.4536 that’s exactly what happening to wypipo now...
@@a.d.4536They are ignorant to realize that part.
I think Frederick Douglass already established that it is different. Same for the Indigenous.
He was born into slavery, so his perspective will be a lot different than people nowadays
We are free. It's 2021. You're not opressed. You are just poor.
Since when have the poor not been oppressed. Have you seen the US taxing system? Ignorance is not bliss
@@TheKos2Kos Yes. They aren't oppressed in the US. Poor people in America are overwieght and die from heart diasease because they get to enjoy more lurxies and vices than billions of people in other countries.
You can fix being poor.
@@TheKos2Kos Most poor people don't make enough money to pay substancial taxes. It is unfair though on sucessful people which is why so many find loop holes and ways to hide money. It should be a flat tax since every individual is supposed to be equal under the law according to the consitution.
no because ya'll just commercialized juneteenth, pluse are we really free ?
Some of us are free and some of us are not
If you don’t think you’re free, that’s your problem.
Move to Iran to find out.
Its sad cause Millions of people from all over the world are doing anything they can to come to America. Inform yourself on the realities of all the other countries around the world and appreciate your privilege to be a American citizen.
We dont care about other trying to come here what that got to do with how this country been treating us plus privilege for who not all American
@@marteza654 thats ur privilege showing ur ignorance to the real oppression around the world.
@@brendonclark562Black people aren't taking your holiday from you are we? This discussion is specifically about us.
Many Indigenous Americans don't celebrate the Fourth of July as they don't Columbus Day. Native Americans don't respect Mount Rushmore either.
and in my country canada they protested canada day (July 1st)
99% of Americans never mention the founding on the 4th. Baseball games, fireworks and cook outs with friends and family are the 4th for Americans. It’s not much of holiday for most of us. Neither is memorial day nor Labor Day.
And of course they are "a day off from work", which is one of the best reasons to celebrate them
Memorial Day is for the military who have fought in wars. No worries, a lot of people don’t recognize Juneteenth or Labor Day.
@@SandraMartinez-gv1yf
Exactly!
Memorial day is for those who gave their lives for this country. Labor day is to celebrate those who work to build this country. Both holidays were founded after the Civil War so why do you not believe they represent all people?
@@ignitor53095
People don’t celebrate them! That’s the point! Most Americans don’t think about the Labor movement on Labor Day and they don’t think about the founding on the 4th. We know this because we look at how Americans observe these holidays.
I think another serious issue we face is Traditional Pride. Majority of African American last name ties into slave ownership. Family reunions question is who or what are we truly celebrating. Name / Character ownership MR. Or MRS.
My last name is the name of a Slave Plantation off the eastern cost and widwest along the Louis and Clark and Ben York Expedition.Ben York who was a translator and spoke 20 different languages . Question how did an so called African American Speak Native American Language. Smhwt ( Scraching my Head with Thought )
At the funeral of Thomas Payne, two black men (out of only 5 people) attended. Thomas Payne argued that slavery should be ended. His friends. That's why George Washington didn't come to his funeral, he owned slaves.
How many funerals have you not attended? Should we be talking about it 250 years from now?
So decisive. How many years have to pass before the past has less influence on people than the present?
It's sad that I didn't teach Frederick Douglass when I taught that period in history. I did have students read "The Soul of Black Folk." On the other hand, I did have students say, "is this a Black history class?" It was an English class.
Just an anecdote form my life. I had a college professor for an Honors English class. Every piece of reading material chosen was from black authors during the civil rights movement. Not only that, but every piece of extra credit was to be earned by attending lectures in the African American Student Union. Everyone knew that the teacher was pushing an agenda to teach us a particular part of Black history that was important to her, but not to us students. She didn't care at all about actual writing concepts and preparing us for professional writing. So, we missed out on an opportunity to learn what we were supposed to learn in that class. For a teacher, the fundamental concepts are what should come first, and educators really shouldn't try to impose their own social agenda on students. They resent that. Students can learn about history on their own, it's all freely available out there. No one should misuse their authority when teaching a subject to forcibly teach a personal agenda to students.
England outlawed slavery in it largest colonies in 1833. thirty years before the U.S. Might had made African-Americans rethink about the "freedom" that was created in 1776 having to wait more than a generation for their freedom, that was limited for another 100 years due to segregation.
And what does that have to do with you? Nothing. You were born free. You are not oppressed
@@SandraMartinez-gv1yf Thank you for the reply. Isn't selfish to only care about yourself and not to care about your fellow Americans and how they're treated just because their skin is darker then your? Do you also think it was O.K. what Hitler did to the Jews as long as it didn't affect you?
You think it only affected black people? Hello women had no rights, immigrants had no rights by the way who you would consider white. Not everyone benefited from it back then. Many others had to fight for freedoms besides black people you are not special or unique to the cause... Just like every ethnic group has experienced slavery. Again you're not special or unique...
Let's not forget the most important part. Thomas Jeferson was a rap!st
It’s not different if you want equality. Celebrate what is not what was. You can waste your life whining or the past and not live in the present. God had a plan and he never misses. You are free and start appreciating and acting like it.
How is it not in God's plan to address good, bad, or ambivalent past events that impact the present? How can one appreciate freedom without fighting for justice, especially any American regardless of race? I think people choose to live in comfort far too much these days. Rather forget how the world is and just be happy with what they have
These people need an extended vacation in Iran or China. They are publicity seekers, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Not me. Hope u guys had a nice 4th
Over 70 people shot 12 killed in Chicago alone . I wonder what celebration that was? We need to start to heal and become one citizen or star to learn Chinese
#Quit Dividing
This is a good and honest conversation.
Fireworks only mess with my sleep.🤷🏾♂️
We are the purpose of the prophecy that was set to be African American!
The colonies were controlled by parliament in Britain, the king was not a tyrant, that's just the white myth of David and Goliath in colonial America.
but the king had to give final approval
The true Nile River is the Mississippi River
Tell me what this means
Facts, few understand
Not true.
Y they keep showing the Washington monument? when that was stolen from Kemet/Egypt. The oldest symbol of resurrection, from African king Asar. Tekken, Phallus - penis or greek name obelisk is even in St.Peters square, worshiped on Easter. This symbol represents the " Trinity" - Asar, Aset, Heru or greek names, Osiris, Isis, Horus. Story: Asar was killed by his brother into 14 pieces. Aset (wife to Asar) finds 13 of the body parts along the Nile and wrapped Asar back up. This was the first mummy. Aset was a virgin, Asar's spirit impregnated Aset and the birth of Heru,(Horus, Jesus) was on Dec.25. Thats why it is a symbol of life resurrecting.
It's a Public Holiday.
Eat big day.
I love America and proudly celebrate the 4th of July. You don't speak for this black woman.
I'm confused why the nation's birthday is divisive even after watching this. You can fight for a better nation, but if we can't agree that this nation is worth fighting for then what's the damn point? If you want to get down to the root of the founding of our country, then really only white WASP Englishmen should celebrate since they were the only ones who were truly free in 1776, but that would be silly. Women had no rights, children had no rights, natives had no rights, people of any other color had no rights, yet all of them are coming to the US in droves AND think it's a pretty great place to be born. I'm trying to understand, but honestly, I'm just not getting it if we all can't agree on the single premise.
You totally missed the subject. It was about what The 4th of July means to BLACK Americans. It's nothing to do with not caring about America or taking the holiday away from anyone else.
Wow. So amazing how you named yourself the speaker for "black Americans"
yep, got four liberals up there that speak for all black americans, wonderful!!
@@kpk547 Are they four liberals or are they four ill-liberals?
My surgeon, a black woman, does not appear to be in bondage.
You gotta see past the individual. As a whole, the shackle is still in the minds. That's undeniable when you know our full history.
when did they have a problem with it? Because with the bbq's and fireworks I couldnt tell.
Reparations is the only thing to celebrate,nothing else here
Ok, we’ll start with the Romans
@@SandraMartinez-gv1yf black folks first and foremost
Just enjoy the holiday without ripping it apart. A lot of White and Black people died so you can have the freedoms you take for granted today.
That’s just ignorant...
@@sceptre3524 Care to elaborate?
Was black people free after the American Revolution?
@@TexasMade903 No, but how many wars have they fought in to help keep America free? WWI and WWII ring a bell?
@@ignitor53095 They still came home and faced racism. Some even where lynched in there uniforms.
Instead of reading a Frederick Douglass speech--- how about applying for a Visa to live in another country?? 🤔
For what this our country most of yall just got here with the homestead act
Kidnapped people shouldn't have to pay their way back anywhere. They came by torture/ force.Don't forget that and ask the Native Americans who they'd like to see pack up and get on the next ship out of here.
If you can't celebrate a day because of anything that was or was not happening or was in existence on that day, in spite of otherwise tremendous historical significance, that's too bad. The establishment of the U.S. is not defined by the fact that people owned slaves at that time, any more than by the fact most people got around on horses.
Forging chains of mind?
Which country is worthy of emulation?
its the same for canada day, everyone tryna cancel it
Officially, the Continental Congress declared its freedom from Great Britain on July 2, 1776, when it voted to approve a resolution submitted by delegate Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all. Even after slavery was abolished, freedom and independence were empty, hollow words. If you are not white, your freedom is conditional, not a guarantee.
Ummmm ... if you were born in America ..... you are an American. Don't like the country ... leave.
Repair your damage then it can be a true America
This channel should just shut down.
Did u read the name of the channel
@@marteza654 Did you?
The 4th of July means the same thing for black Americans because we are all Americans. I wish people on the left stop separating us and treating us as if we are not Americans? We pay American taxes just like everybody else.
We're hebrew Isrealite jews.
We all American but we do not have the same history
Race baiters
But only works if you're feeling baited. Lol
You feeling baited? 😂
A means to an end. What the controllers really want are Federalized elections, Federalized police, open borders, etc. If they get that, you wake up in your bed and everything goes back to normal, if they don't, the "terror" continues.
Let's visit this same topic next year after June 19th, so we can see will everybody that is a American celebrate June 19th whether you are a descendant of slavery or not.
@@davidlarue727
Not in the beginning, how many holidays were you around to see how people react in the first year they were able to celebrate that particular holiday. It's like a person first birthday, Christmas when they were a kid or any other thing a person fought for to make it come true.
@@lowemichael03 well, Juneteenth was the first time and the majority of the people slept in. It wasn’t Xmas
This is old
Get over it!
Cultural Marxists gonna cultural Marx
come to canada. If you really want to know the feeling of the far left having complete power over their people.
@@retroblue69696 Better solution, come to America, take up the mantle of Liberty. We need more people who appreciate it.
Bofta Yimam look good but she goofy
Just a bunch of cry babys lol
I will only celebrate Juneteenth and not the 4th of July anymore.
Ok bigot
My family owns and operates a firework stand on July 3rd and 4th we refuse to sell fireworks to "African American" people. WHY? WE TOLD THEM "THE 4TH OF JULY - ISN'T FOR YOU IT'S FOR US-- YOU HAVE JUNETEENTH. WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE.
No other country in the world gives everyone the same chance to be successful if you work for it . Is it perfect No but I don"t see many people leaving do you.
Here is a suggestion.....go elsewhere!!!!!
I pledge the allegiance to the flag of United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all it's covered