"Happy
white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure
they enjoyed fireworks."
-Chris Rock
That's
what he said, alluding to the fact that while America had won its
independence from Great Britain, slavery was still the law of the
land for black folks and some Indians. Rock didn't lie. He was just
making a joke based
on fact.
But
the conservative wing nuts on the right got mad. One of them, who
authors one of the blogs that I refuse to read, told Rock to go fuck
himself. Not nice! I mean who knew they paid attention to or had
even heard of Chris Rock? Most conservative comedy is provided to
them by guys with names like Herman and Clarence or Stepin, or Amos
or Andy (Amos n Andy were white, too-shhhhh don't tell anybody).
Chris
Rock? Really?
Rock
didn't lie. He just pointed out a truth and therein lies the problem.
Some whites, mainly conservative but some liberals too, are very
sensitive when you start pointing out to them how big a bastard their
collective ancestors were back in the day. That's why they are always
telling us to get over it, because THEY have and don't want to
discuss it. WE “hold onto the past.” WE “play the race card.”
WE are “too sensitive.” WE “misunderstand” when the
President is called a Monkey or his wife a gorilla or his kids,
orangutans.
All that shit is funny, right? But to link slavery and
independence day...that's not funny...
You
know what's funny....Conservatives who are literally rewriting the
history books to teach their kids that slavery was not a problem in
America. Some of them are going all the way to changing names like
calling the slave Middle Passage, the Triangle Trade, or eliminating
altogether any mention of the fact that most of America's Presidents
were also slave owners...makes the USA look bad..... Texas, Please!
I
don't know of a Black person on this continent who is not proud of
being an American , especially on the 4th
of July (Wil Smith whipped ET's ass, remember?). However what pisses
us off are those who refuse to acknowledge what went down after the
Revolutionary War. We have all, both black and white paid a price
for it and it will never end until some white people, some blacks in
denial and some conservatives own up to what happened.
And
as for Brother Cain, he told CNN today:
“I
think it was Chris Rock who made fun of the fact, ‘Well, it might
be Independence Day, but the slaves weren’t free then.’ Look at
it this way, if America had not become independent, slaves might
still be slaves.”
Actually
Pizza Man, it took 90 years for America to free its slaves after the
revolution . The British, however, freed their slaves some 32
years before that. It's called the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.
Feel free to look it up.....that is if the conservatives haven't
wiped it out of your history books yet.
hehehe....
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