Joy Reid Claims Black People Aren’t Excited For July 4th, Juneteenth Is The ‘Real Thing’

“Nobody black I know is really excited about the 4th of July,” Reid said. “It is the celebration of slaveholders who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to the Crown for their slave empire. And that is what it is.”

“If we’re just being perfectly honest, whether you read ‘The 1619 Project’ or not, you just have to understand that for black people — particularly for African-Americans — there’s a duality to the Fourth of July that is hard to reconcile if you think about it too much,” Reid continued.

“Juneteenth to me is the real thing that Fourth of July is, because we really were not a democracy until we ended slavery,” Reid claimed. “[It’s] the perfect crystallization of the reality of America.”

Speaking for all black Americans, Reid complained that “it’s hard to recognize anything but Juneteenth as Independence Day.”

Reid’s interviewer, a woman identified as “Alex,” argued that Juneteenth is the “antidote” to the “patriotism” exhibited by the July 4th celebrations organized on the National Mall. (RELATED: Democrats’ Rival Event To Trump’s Freedom 250 UFC Bombs)

“Juneteenth is actually the answer for what has been really twisting me into knots, which is like, what does patriotism look like? And what is the antidote? Like everybody’s like, you know, ‘f— the Fourth of July celebrations and the UFC fights and the Indie drag races and the MAGA rally. That’s not us. That’s not our country.’”