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Originally Posted by jimihaze
I am so glad for this thread. I hope everyone that reads it will understand that as black people that the 4th of july was not our day of independence. this day was for whites it was there day to celebrate there independence from england. our people were in shackles. our independence day is june 19 also know as juneteenth. that is the independence day I celebrate. I will be working on the 4th gladly cause it is time in half. I don't work on juneteenth cause that is the day my people were set free from the shackles of slavery.
Jimi"blazehaze"Hendrix
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Juneteenth isn't any day of Independence!!!
If we where to say that it would lead us to believe we are free but we aren't!!!
How can we say we are Free when some many Africans when the American Economy is largely supported by a Prison Industry that we are over 60% of?
How can we say we are free when in DC in a hood by the name of Trinidad the Police set up Military Check Points around it like they do in Bagdad?
How can we say we are free when we are not Self-Determining?
Juneteenth wasn't when we got Free because we didn't say we where Free. We didn't make that struggle!!!
The reality is that if you a Government one day says you a Slave then the next day says you are a citizen, you are no less a Slave than you where before because that same government has the power to go right back and say you are a Slave again!
The Chinese didn't get free through emancipation. They got Free By Struggling For their Freedom!