Posted on 04/10/2026 5:09:37 AM PDT by Libloather
MS NOW host Reverend Al Sharpton said the United States' upcoming 250th anniversary is not a "celebration" for Black people and that it's "crazy" to expect them to celebrate it.
"They're going to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the country July 4th, but that's not our celebration," Sharpton said at the National Action Network’s 35th Anniversary National Convention on Wednesday.
He continued, "We were slaves then, and they celebrate signing the Declaration of Independence 1776. We were not even emancipated until 1863. So I don't know what everybody getting ready for a celebration [for]. You know that it seems crazy for me to have on the birthday hat at your birthday party. That ain't my party."
Sharpton suggested that he should hold a separate rally in Philadelphia and expressed concern that young citizens were not aware of Black people's "background" thanks to President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., attempting to remove woke aspects in education.
"When White kids hear us talking about reparations or affirmative action, they think it's an attack because they don't know what their granddaddy did to us," Sharpton said.
Sharpton has been a critic of removing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from businesses and schools, threatening boycotts against businesses that pulled back DEI initiatives since Trump's second term began.
He also accused DeSantis of trying to "erase Black history" after his administration demanded revisions to an AP African American studies course in 2023.
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who spoke with Sharpton earlier in the convention, also emphasized the importance of remembering the nation's history with slavery, advocating for the formation of a "Department of Reconciliation" to address it.
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Hopefully that little toad’s grifting empire is coming to an end.
I enjoyed 2112. Good album.
The race hustler has never had a real job
On that Ken Burns series about the Revolution the African-American talking heads were ambivalent about the Revolution, seeing both bad and good in it. It was the Indian talking heads who couldn’t get over it.
OK.
That's fine.
I can see why you might feel that way ...
So GO!
LEAVE!!!
Get your worthless sorry carcass out of MY COUNTRY.
Find some place more to your liking.
Try the Central African Republic.
Or Somalia.
Or Burundi.
Oh ... you don't want to live in a Turd World Craphole?
You want to stay here?
Then SHUT THE FCCK UP!!!
I'm pretty sure the actual African-Africans DO NOT WANT THEM.
And if celebrating America is so horrible for blacks, then tell me again why the F should I care about juneteenth? Yawn...
Open the banks and the Post Office
Monroe, Quincy Adams and Lincoln all wanted to send them all back. Its not too late. If they really hate Whitey, I’m sure we could agree to a “Great Society final payment” for one-way airfare to Liberia.
I’ve read that ... I found it profoundly hypocritical, ungrateful, and arrogant.
A short decade later, hundreds of thousands of WHITE MEN would shed their own blood and expend their own treasure to free what has turned out to be the most obnoxious group of recipients of unearned freedom in human history.
I wrote several responses to this and had to delete them. Oh to speak my mind.
I don't give a rip about that inarticulately named "holiday" regardless of the drivel "Professional Negroes" like Fat Al Sharpton emit from their mouths.
Al Sharpton is one of the most privileged Americans to have ever lived
PRETTY SURE AFRICA DOES NOT WANT SHARPTON BACK
Trump is going to celebrate the country’s anniversary. It will declare that it’s ONE country, not dozens of special-identity groups that hate all the other groups.
Ok now I’m really confused!
Your remote ancestor sailed with Columbus so 1492-ish yet got hanged by the Australian colonial government? First Fleet didn’t arrive in Oz until 1788. That’s 300-ish years difference. Old dude! You got great genes then!
What if your ancestors weren’t even in America at the time of slaver or for close to a hundred years after it was abolished? What if your ancestors were actually enslaved by moslems....just like the Africans?
True. But he became a millionaire doing it. I hate that his followers are so naive to believe his crap.
Al needs to deport himself and family back to Africa.
My other grandfather was born in the US but he also never owned any slaves.
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