🎆🎆🎉Happy 4th of July🎂🎆🎆. Today most people are celebrating this country's "freedrom" from Britain, but just a small reminder:
Black pple weren't freed until June 19th, 1865 and slave actions were well kept and upheld in many southern states all the way through the 1960's.
Women of color weren't able to vote until years after the suffragist movment, which was years after U.S independence. (**The suffragist movement was racist af, and is the pinnacle to where white feminism was born**).
Everyone who isn't a Native American is basically a descendant of an immigrant, because their land was unjustly stolen and most of their people were massacred into genocide, leaving only few Native American tribes that exist today.
Texas was actually Mexican Territory, until Europeans took their fucking land then made them pay the U.S reparations, even though the U.S has played a large role in the destabilization of their country and a lot of other Latin American countries.
The U.S is responsible for (and this is just to name a few):
Japanese Concentration Camps
Slavery, Segregation, & The KKK
Systemic incarceration of black and brown youth fueled by private jails needing to profit, and of course, racism.
The Indian Child Welfare Act
The introduction to crack by our own gov. in lower urban neighborhoods.
The Widespread Epidemic of Aids/HIV among the lgbtqia and black community.
The thousands of lives lost bc. of war and the military's fake use of selling "freedom" and "democracy" as propaganda to futher the U.S' greed for oil, money, and resources, and the millions of vets who are homeless or impoverished and can't afford treatment needed for healthcare.
The lack of funding to public schools that are usually overcrowded and disadvantaged.
That dumbass BLUE LIVES MATTER Movement.
Donald "Dumbass" Trump's rise to power.
The fact that Neo-Nazis are a thing again, and are not recognized by the U.S government as a terrorist group.
Also, this dumbass rule to separate children from their parents bc. they're "illegal" and it's more "humane" to punish refugee immigrants fleeing from a country the U.S had a big hand in fucking up.
.....But you know, I hope America's bday is filled with joy and celebration, and this false sense of nationalism by a country who could give two craps about you.
🎉🎆🎉HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!!!🎉🎆🎉🎆