‘What to the Slave is
the Fourth of July?’
New York Daily News,
by
Leonard Greene
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
7/3/2020 3:19:04 PM
Question for America: In a country where a white cop feels empowered to press his knee into a Black man’s neck for nearly eight minutes while he is handcuffed and pleading, “I can’t breathe,” why should I celebrate the Fourth of July? When I’ve spent the last six months watching a disease that doesn’t discriminate on its own, kill and infect Black people in America at an alarmingly disproportionate rate, why should I celebrate the Fourth of July? And when history tells me in weathered documents, like the Declaration of Independence we commemorate this weekend, that the nation’s founding fathers were a collection of noble hypocrites
Reply 1 - Posted by:
LaValette 7/3/2020 3:38:23 PM (No. 465866)
We notice the pattern of these complaints:
1. Cite historic wrongs such as slavery which have since been righted as if they had not been.
2. Conflate massive wrongs like slavery with current problems which all grow from your own commitment to fatherlessness and criminal behavior
3. Offer no actionable suggestions that could remedy the problem.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/3/2020 3:47:59 PM (No. 465879)
"Don’t really want to go home because it’s not very nice there. But here I am a slave. Well, not really. i am free. I won’t have anything to do with a cop ever unless another slave breaks into my house or I get into trouble. So I guess I’ll just have to write a nasty little article about the country I live in, knowing that - unlike in my home country - the worst that can happen is that no one will read it. I’m stuck, though, trying to make those people I don’t care about care that I don’t want to celebrate the 4th of July. Independence Day.”
A useless life. You can read about poor Leonard here.
https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/faculty/leonard-greene/
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 7/3/2020 3:48:01 PM (No. 465880)
There are no slaves here.
Don't like it? Don't celebrate it.
You're lucky to be living here.
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I wonder what Fredrich Douglass said after the Civil War? Like others have said these "journo-activist totally disregard the improvements to the society over time. People and society are not machinery that can be shutdown and upgrades implemented over the weekend.
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The 9000 Black patriots who fought for the American cause might take exception to this article
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 7/3/2020 3:57:36 PM (No. 465890)
So many lies and distortions. I have seen no evidence, none, that the thug cop felt "empowered" to put his knee on his prisoner's neck because he was white and the suspect was black. And, geez, Douglas gave the speech on 1852 when the country still held slaves. If Leonard wants to see black slaves today, he needs to go to Africa where, for example, in Mauritania up to 20% of the population are slaves. Owned by black Muslims. Leonard and the BLM should go fight slavery there.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 7/3/2020 3:58:20 PM (No. 465892)
Every day, for years and years, we are bombarded with crap from the most unhappy people--liberals. They somehow have to find doom and gloom in everything. There is no good in this world and they will do their best to try to make you unhappy. Let's stop listening to these sourpusses and ignore them in the future. They are the Eeyore of Winnie the Pooh, always sad and down in the dumps. I think it's genetic.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
PostAway 7/3/2020 3:58:34 PM (No. 465894)
Leonard Greene is that guy in the neighborhood who yells, “Get off my lawn” at every passing
child and pet.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
web 7/3/2020 4:07:13 PM (No. 465905)
I've had more then enough of hearing about it. Whining, complaining, rioting, protesting. Fix your own life and leave us alone. We had nothing to do with it. Ask the demoncrats for reparations, if you want. Stop destroying and burning down what it took us generations to build. Demoncrats and the left must constantly blame everything on normal, ordinary Americans, because otherwise the victims of their history might turn on them.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/3/2020 4:07:59 PM (No. 465906)
In case the author missed it he has been offered an open invitation to Ghana. Perhaps he would prefer Japan. Canada would take him in but you better pack some warm clothes. On the African continent Ghana is one of the better ones because you would not like Dubai. A bit north Saud is right off the charts. You don't want to CELEBRATE the 4th ??? Then just sit down, be quiet and let we American citizens and legal immigrants celebrate. Then go someplace else.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
volksford 7/3/2020 4:09:28 PM (No. 465909)
I assume that any fourth of July that falls on a weekday this whiner stays at work. By the way Leonard , Ghana welcomes you
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
marbles 7/3/2020 4:12:24 PM (No. 465912)
Lenny, don't celebrate. Speak put and denigrate America all you want , you have the 1st Amendment to thank for that, try doing it in China and see what happens to you. Write an article about it , 1st Amendment protection again.Your life is better than Frederick Douglas's Look at all you have, all that you enjoy is because of white people and your own hard work for which you are well paid.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
davew 7/3/2020 4:13:09 PM (No. 465913)
They might want to celebrate the defeat of Lee's army at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 4 1863. This was the decisive battle that sealed the fate of the Southern cause and allowed Lincoln the victory he needed to make the Emancipation Proclamation a reality and get reelected to win the war against slavery. Sounds like liberty to me.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/3/2020 4:16:42 PM (No. 465916)
You blithering idiot. Have you asked the important questions? Like:
1. Why do Blacks face ugliness at the hands of cops, mostly in Democrat-controlled cities.
2. What behaviors do your fellow blacks involve themselves in, that might spread disease? BLM, anyone?
3. The Founders who became Federalists generally opposed slavery. The Founders who became Democrats demanded it. As Benjamin Franklin said at the time, using the divided snake, its parts labeled after the States to be: "We must all hang together, or surely we will all hang separately. The continuance of slavery was the price the future Democrats demanded, for their participation in the war against England.
On July 2nd, 1776 The founders set in motion a dream of freedom. At the time, there were blacks, whites and American Indians included in the ranks of slavery. In June of 1788, the Continental Congress agreed on the framework of this Freedom, placing limitations on Government as had never been conceived, before - a government of, by and for the People. A method of governance where the government was accountable to its citizens, rather than the other way around.
But this was merely the beginning.
And from then till now, the Democrats did their best to sabotage that new born freedom. In Civil War and Jim Crow, in the Civil Rights act, through violence and deception, the Democrats have constantly championed the concept of Elite and commoner. A notion antithetical to freedom.
They unsuccessfully sent mercenaries to turn the Caribbean into a 'Golden Circle' of Slave States. Knowing Emancipation was slowly coming, they tried to disarm the anti-slavery North ahead a Civil War THE DEMOCRATS STARTED. The KKK and Jim Crow was designed and enacted by Democrats. WIlson was the culmination of that, ensnaring the Presidency a scant 50 years after the Civil War, and adding the Income Tax to enslave any wage earner who lived. Blacks who had till that point served in the Federal systems were banished.
Martin Luther King, who could have guided his people through the pitfalls of the Civil Rights Act was conveniently murdered. and in his place were Race Baiting Activists who led Blacks away from the path of Freedom and independence and back into slavery, degradation, and genocide. Government under the Democrats from Wilson on, and especially after Johnson, bought their freedom, destroyed their families and independence and murdred blacks by the millions, in the womb, before they could even live.
Mr. Greene! Where is your SANITY!!! Your WERE Free. Till you sold yourselves back to the Masters you were freed from!!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/3/2020 4:19:19 PM (No. 465921)
Dude, I hear Zimbabwe is like "Black Heaven." No need to stay suffering in this hellhole. Go. Really.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DARling 7/3/2020 4:23:08 PM (No. 465922)
He hides behind words written before the American slaves were freed. He should be thankful that he lives in a country where you can blather about how terrible it is and not be made to disappear into the night. If he looked at the here and now instead of wallowing in the past, perhaps he could find something worth smiling about.
The most ridiculous thing is reading about how a virus is racist. The virus has no brain. It attacks the elderly, as well as obese people with other behavior-related conditions. We can all control risk factors in our lives. I refuse to accept blame for the poor lifestyle choices of others.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 7/3/2020 4:24:27 PM (No. 465925)
Please forgive me for getting this information from Wikipedia but I know in this case that is true: " Crispus Attucks was an American stevedore of African and Native American descent, widely regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the American Revolution." He was an American. He died for all of us...ALL of us including those of us whose families arrived in the 20th century.
The Framers and many of the Founders were very conflicted on slavery and many worked to have it abolished as early as 1777. We cannot judge the people 245 years ago with the knowledge we have in 2020. There was never any "good" slavery but we cannot imagine life during that time. It was a cruel period throughout the entire world.
Washington's actions towards the Black soldiers who served during the Revolution speak for themselves. They received all decorations and a pensions bestowed on a White participants.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/3/2020 4:27:27 PM (No. 465928)
Too bad most Americans know nothing about the history of slavery in the world, either past or present. Blacks were treated better than Irish Catholic slaves.
By the way, if you can't breathe, you can't say it.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 7/3/2020 4:33:17 PM (No. 465937)
Bitch,bitch bitch,,,
Count your blessings for a change.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
EQKimball 7/3/2020 4:38:59 PM (No. 465944)
He will feel more patriotic after he receives his suggested $1.5 million reparations check. How can we afforded it? Simple. Get ready to "defund the military" for the next 20 years. Not sure that the Chinese will feel obligated to pick up the tab, however.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Quigley 7/3/2020 4:41:12 PM (No. 465949)
Another question: could any nation in Africa pass your test? Any nation in the world?
What nation is good enough for you that it is stainless in all things? (Is stainlessness from only the things that matter to you good enough?) What would African history read like had Africans developed the same technologies the west had but had been the lone possessor of them in the world? Would they have been stainless? If Europeans had operated slave markets selling Europeans would those Africans have bought them, or would they have remained stainless? Are Africans even now stainless?
Where do we look to see him without stain? Him who had the power to abuse but did not abuse it? Where, Leonard? How many African countries leonard? Spain? Haha. France? Nonsense. Uganda? Where leonard?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
TLCary 7/3/2020 4:42:18 PM (No. 465951)
Empowered? TRAINED! And the same technique has been used on white and black perps. As a medic they taught me that if someone said "I can't breath" it meant that THEY WERE BREATHING! perp with a heart condition that was stoned on the most lethal hard core illegal drug in the world, with a chaser of meth and buffet of other illegal drugs had a heart attack while being apprehended. What does that incident have to do with anything?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 7/3/2020 4:47:35 PM (No. 465955)
so the virus doesn't discriminate "on it's own" so White people must be responsible( I am now capitalizing White)? Why not blame the chinese? maybe they don't like blacks( and i have never seen evidence that they have any affinity for blacks) and tailored it to hit minorities hardest?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
FunOne 7/3/2020 4:47:49 PM (No. 465956)
Kinda uppity there, Leonard. First, you aren't a slave--you just appropriated that label for the sensationalism. Had your ancestors not been brought to this country and suffered to make you able to have a nice paying job at CUNY think of where you would be today. Probably back in Africa running around naked in the jungle trying to invent something useful like the wheel. Enjoy independence day, guy.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
franq 7/3/2020 5:08:29 PM (No. 465977)
I identify as a tax slave. Does that count?
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In 1776 slavery existed in nations around the world. In 1776 a new nation was conceived, based upon the proposition that all men are created equal. In 1865 the United States of America redeemed that promise. This country paid a steep price in blood and treasure to free its slaves, long before any but a very few countries.
If our education system was not hopelessly politicized by the Left, these facts would be widely known and our Independence Day would be enthusiastically celebrated for the global triumph it was.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
starboard 7/3/2020 5:14:00 PM (No. 465983)
So sad Greene hasn't learned how to accept what happened two hundred years ago in this great country that we call home. His personal anger and resentment define who he is, not past generations. If he wants to find peace, he should look inside himself. Blaming others doesn't make things right or better.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
DVC 7/3/2020 5:17:23 PM (No. 465986)
HIstory is past and dead. They won't let go a wrong which was righted 155 years ago.
Grow up, get a life, drop your pathetic, sad, self-indulgent hate and get on with your life. It's a beautiful world, if you will just stop hating and inventing problems that do not exist, and trying to 'solve' problems that ended more than a century ago.
This is literally some sort of a psychosis.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Citoyen 7/3/2020 5:42:28 PM (No. 466010)
I for one am getting quite weary of being lectured by a tiny percentage of the 13 percent of American citizens who are black. I worry that an animus may arise due to the angry, hateful rhetoric of so-called black leaders and intellectuals castigating, scolding and smearing the 87 percent of the country who happen not to be black. I know that the author of this hateful screed doesn't represent the majority of black people but he is who claims to speak for them. Who can remain sympathetic after hearing and seeing racist haters like Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton, Cory Booker, Sheila Jackson Lee, James Clyburn and on and on? I've had it up to here.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Truth Czar 7/3/2020 8:47:37 PM (No. 466146)
Whiney twerp. Go cower in your closet.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
SALady 7/3/2020 9:35:00 PM (No. 466184)
Leonard, bless your bitter and evil little black heart!!!
Guess what? It's a free country. If you don't want to celebrate Independence Day, don't do it. I guarantee you that I don't celebrate MLK's birthday, because MLK had no bearing on my life.
However, I don't whine about it, or demand they abolish MLK's birthday celebration. I just ignore it. How very mature of me!!! You should try it Leonard!!!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
NYbob 7/4/2020 12:49:48 AM (No. 466293)
Perfect example of how we got here. This evil fool is 'teaching' journalism at a NY state university and then the NY Daily News publishes his idiotic rant.
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‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’ I know ! I know ! A paid holiday. /s
I regret the day we stopped the draft and quit making men out of whiny boys. Must really be sad to wake up every day miserable. But, fear not. Liberia awaits you. Will all of the people who hate this country our founders fought for, please stop disrespecting our ancestors, and leave.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Pathcoin1 7/4/2020 1:16:13 PM (No. 466849)
Compare you life to those who stayed in Africa. Compare you life to the regions of the world where slavery is still an accepted condition. The Declaration of Independence was the catalyst that changed the world. The acceptance of blacks as 60% counting towards representation in the constitution was a monumental change of thought, instrumental in changing a slave from chattel to a person. The American Civil, the war to end slavery, was a war that was the result of that catalyst: the incompatibility of the noble thoughts of the writers of the Declaration with the actual state of affairs of the time. Only one could prevail. The Civil War was a the link in the chain; that link was forged in WWI and WWII where whites and blacks fought together against a common enemy; that righteousness forged the righteousness of MLK where each individual was to evaluated on his/her merit and not on the color of their skin. It has been a long climb and it is not yet done; but the light the beckoned humanity to recognize humanity still shines bright and is our guiding light from above. And that is a why the descendant of former slaves should embrace July 4th more fervently than anyone else.
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Imagine being this bitter, yet also too feckless and lazy to pack up and return to the waiting arms of Mother Africa. Maybe Abraham Lincoln was right about bLACK people all along.