“Independence” Day- who’s it for?

I don’t celebrate the 4th of July, and if you do, you’re wrong.

What about African-American slaves? Were they mentioned in the Declaration of “Independence”?

What about Native Americans? Was their right to life, to liberty, to property, to the pursuit of happiness considered on that day?

What about women, who wouldn’t get the vote until almost 200 years later (which means non-white women were doubly non-independent)?

No, this day is only a day when some other land-owning white men (Anglo-Saxons –> Germanic –> Aryans) decided to cut some others out of the land they wanted to steal, the lives they wanted to exploit, the women they wanted to rape, and the people they wanted to wipe out.

You need to put down the pork and open a book…

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If you’re American and you’re facebooking on the 4th of July; you’re a loser. 

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If you’re African-American and you’re celebrating the 4th of July; you’re ignorant, because your slavery and humanity was ignored on this day, in the country you broke your back to build.

If you’re Native American and you’re celebrating; you’re a fool, because all that happened for you was other people’s fight for the right to steal your land.

If you’re a European American and you’re celebrating; you’ve likely been bamboozled, for only landowning white men were made full citizens by the war that was to follow this day.

If you’re a woman and you’re celebrating; you’ve disgraced yourself, for after all your contributions, you wouldn’t have an equal say until centuries after this day.

If you’re new here and you’re celebrating today; you are welcome, but perhaps you should have fought and died in your country for what we have here.

As for me, my nationality is a matter of circumstance.  i am free, and so i celebrate, on this day and every other, for i am free from slavery to those who are themselves enslaved, to slavery to the Lord of slaves, who Has Forbidden His Self from oppression, whose Mercy has overcome His Wrath…