Former MSNBC host and professional race-baiter Joy Reid is once again vomiting anti-American bile just weeks before the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary of Independence on July 4, 2026.
In a cozy chat with fellow ex-MSNBC castoff Alex Wagner, about Juneteenth and the nation’s founding, Reid argued that the Fourth of July should not be viewed as a unifying national holiday because many of the Founding Fathers owned slaves.
According to Reid, the holiday commemorates “slaveholders who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to the Crown for their slave empire.”
Reid added that Juneteenth is the real Independence Day for Black Americans.
Reid: Apologies to my dear spicy White friends, because I know that my White brothers and sisters do love the 4th of July—it’s Independence Day. Everybody’s barbecuing; it’s a thing.
I can promise you, Black folks, we will take that day off. We will barbecue because we’re off. But Black people—nobody Black I know is really excited about the 4th of July, because it is what Frederick Douglass said it is. 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.
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