"Independence Day" itself is something POC observe with wry detachment bc, I mean, really, white folks weren't *that* bad off before 1776.
Black folks celebrate Juneteenth but that just ended legal slavery. We still had to endure sharecropping, lynching, and Jim Crow. Taxation without representation? We'd have loved that.
The conditions the American colonists lived under were roughly equal, if not overtly better, than what black people endured in the segregated 1950s South. Curiously, we never took up arms.
