{"id":2175,"date":"2026-06-29T16:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:11:53","slug":"joy-reid-prefers-juneteenth-to-july-4th-the-date-that-ultimately-freed-mankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=2175","title":{"rendered":"Joy Reid prefers Juneteenth to July 4th, the date that ultimately freed mankind"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have a bit more to say about former MSNBC host Joy Reid and her former colleague Alex Wagner, who recently engaged in an online conversation comparing Independence Day and Juneteenth.<\/p>\n

Read more Israel and the Gulf nations have more in common than most people realize<\/a><\/p>\n

Reid stated that \u201cnobody black I know is really excited about the 4th of July\u201d and claimed that her black friends basically treat the Fourth as a day off to barbecue. (That seems racist. Is Reid saying that all blacks like ribs and chicken?)<\/p>\n

The Heinous One went on to describe Independence Day as \u201cthe celebration of slaveholders who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to the Crown for their slave empire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Going further, Reid told Wagner that, to many Black Americans, the Fourth of July feels similar to how indigenous people view Thanksgiving. She added that Juneteenth \u201cto me is the real thing\u201d because the United States \u201creally weren\u2019t a democracy until we ended slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much as she might like to, Reid can\u2019t speak for all black folks. And we did<\/em> end slavery, that peculiar and nearly universal institution, and more than 360,000 people gave all in the effort to do so in a war that killed 600,000. Who will pay reparations to those heroes and their families? Upon the conclusion of the American Civil War, more than <\/em>one hundred<\/em> other countries still had large-scale forced labor, i.e. slavery<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Is that fact routinely taught in American classrooms and bandied about in American media? Why not? Another fact that isn\u2019t routinely taught is that the United States is not a pure \u201cdemocracy,\u201d but a representative republic, much to Reid\u2019s and leftists\u2019 chagrin.<\/p>\n

Read more Declaration of Independence \u2013 A reminder of its importance<\/a><\/p>\n

The truth is that America\u2019s birth led to the eventual emancipation of not only blacks in the U.S., but of many peoples around the world. Because the unique and original American experiment hinged on the proclamation of a couple remarkable truths.<\/p>\n

One, that government derives any just powers it may have solely from the will of the people \u2026 and that limited<\/em> government of, by, and for the people with equal justice under the rule of law should be the ideal. And, two, that there are certain unalienable rights that we all<\/em> have, that have been bestowed upon us by our Creator \u2026 and upon which governments cannot infringe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The extent to which a nation\u2019s government acts in concert with those founding American beliefs largely determines how much liberty and happiness its citizens will enjoy.<\/p>\n

Far from Joy Reid\u2019s dismal belief, the U.S. was founded on the idea that all men (people) are created equal. And, to paraphrase Lincoln, we are now truly engaged again in a sort of cold Civil War, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can long endure. It is of utmost importance to the future of the world that we, here and now, at the looming 250th\u00a0birthday of our nation, take increased devotion to the cause of the founders, that we may have a new birth of freedom.<\/p>\n

Read more The American World Cup: 78 Super Bowls<\/a><\/p>\n

Let freedom ring.<\/p>\n

Image:\u00a0Luke Harold, via Wikimedia Commons \/\/ CCO 1.0 Universal Public Domain<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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