On MSNBC’s Morning Joe Thursday, Princeton professor Eddie Glod Jr. told. He said the upcoming 4th of July holiday “always been an incredibly unpleasant holiday for him.”
Noting that she’s from Mississippi, Glod reported that Independence Day was “framed on June Day” and was “the way we fight the legacy of slavery.”
“You know, the 4th of July has always been an incredibly unpleasant holiday for me because of the traditions I came from,” Glod said. “Juneteenth did that with how we fought the legacy of slavery. But I want to reiterate something I got from Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch and I, you know, used it before, Joe, America is more of an idea. It’s more of an argument. It was a fight. And my The tradition I come from is people who have turned their backs on America, who have fought for generations to make America fairer, more loving and more open.”
“And in the sense that my great-grandmother is buried in Moss Point, Mississippi, that place belongs to me. And all the ugliness and all the beauty and everything that could be. And I think, there I was, you know, in this poem by Langston Hughes and Frederick Douglas In this speech on July 5th, you know, both are making an inspiring statement about who we are and how to prepare ourselves to fight for this view of who we are.”
Source: Breitbart
