[MtnClimber]

So we should all be slaves to the state under communism?

[Samurai_Jack]

in the immortal words of john lennon...

‘YOU’D BETTER FREE YOUR MIND INSTEAD!”

[Gay State Conservative]

Just when I thought there might be hope for NPR...after they ran a piece questioning the wisdom of,the need for,this lockdown...they release this cr@p.

[plain talk]

Yes. It freed us all. There are no slaves still alive.

[Vermont Lt]

It freed “most of us” though. One step at a time.

[Lurkinanloomin]

If white people surrender, they’ll kill us all.

[cuban leaf]

The first one to mention race is the racist.

A lot of people in the US didn’t feel very “free” back then. Why do you think so many people headed west? There was a lot of crap going on in the cities of the Northeast.

There are as many stories about life in the US as there are people. And sometimes race played a part and sometimes it didn’t. As with all countries. Japan is arguably the most xenophobic nation on the planet. Maybe a bunch of black people should move there and protest.

[budj]

Does dildo brain know that the first official slave owner in America was a black man?

[dainbramaged]

Listen up, punk - I never owned slaves and you never picked any cotton. Go to Hell.

[notaliberal]

Maybe he should move to another country.

[Texas Eagle]

To some people, the glass is always 1/10th empty.

[eyeamok]

When you’re Black in America, the best thing you can develop is a sense of amnesia and try to Forget that YOUR ANCESTORS SOLD YOU INTO SLAVERY!!!

[rktman]

Quite a few years ago when this POS, uh, POC had a tv show we thought while in Vegas we would catch his live show. WOW! Most hateful racist crap I’ve ever heard. We left early. A disgusting POS would be too kind. Guess who AIN’T oppressed. DL.

[marktwain]

The author should answer two questions.

Where are black people treated better than in the United States?

Why do you want to destroy the system that made better lives possible for Black people than anywhere else in the world?

[Skywise]

Just STFU - YOU have always been free. I have never owned slaves.

[Texas Eagle]

Do any of these people ever sit back and contemplate what this world would look like if The United States of America never came into existence?

No, of course not. That was a stupid question. Forget I asked it.

[windsorknot]

Dr. Who?

[myerson]

This ass is enslaved by the confines of his own narrow, closed mind.

[beancounter13]

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?

[Pontiac]

"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.

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.