To Whom Does the Fourth of July Belong?
Category: BLACK VOICES
White supremacy asks us, on the Fourth, to consider ourselves one American people. But this too is an injustice, because it asks many to forget the ways in which the promise of America never applied to them and still remains largely incomplete. Perpetuating the myth of American independence, while it doesn't fully apply to all, cannibalizes the very hope of full emancipation and real equality.
By Alexandros Orphanides, ContributorWriter, Researcher, Educator, 2015-07-04