The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for July 02, 1999
July 01, 1999
July 03, 1999
Transcript:
Jazmine: Why aren't you coming to our cookout on the Fourth? Huey: I don't know if your parents told you this, Jazmine, but we weren't freed on Independence Day. Apparently one of the rights America won from the British was the right to hold slaves and oppress others. I see little reason to celebrate. Jazmine: Oh, you can find the downside to anything. Huey: Like chattel slavery? Yeah, I guess I'm just funny that way...
When you listen to this, it really makes you wonder sometimes why Black people do celebrate the 4th? A day we really should celebrate that hard was the last day of the civil war, when it was illegal to have slaves, and MLK’s birthday.