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Lenn777 · July 3rd, 2008, 10:54 PM

I celebrate the 4th of July by spending time with family. The holiday it self was meant for white americans and their experience. The so called national holidays that we celebrate with the exception of MLK do not include the contributions of Afro-Americans. Some of us attempt to include ourselves by celebrating the 4th due to we look for acceptance from the so called white man who enslaved us and still does to a certain degree today. We forget when the original independence day happened we were slaves and not considered citizens. So I ask why do we celebrate a holiday that was not meant for us?

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Lenn777 Afro Resident Occasional 2Cents Lenn777 is offline Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Carolina Posts: 16 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Rep Power: 0 Credits: 189	I celebrate the 4th of July by spending time with family. The holiday it self was meant for white americans and their experience. The so called national holidays that we celebrate with the exception of MLK do not include the contributions of Afro-Americans. Some of us attempt to include ourselves by celebrating the 4th due to we look for acceptance from the so called white man who enslaved us and still does to a certain degree today. We forget when the original independence day happened we were slaves and not considered citizens. So I ask why do we celebrate a holiday that was not meant for us?