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Colin Kaepernick breaks July 4th as ‘celebration of white supremacy’

It’s not a holiday for Colin Kaepernick, who criticized July 4 as a “celebration of white supremacy,” in a tweet. “Black people have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized by the United States for centuries, and are expected to join in their commemoration of ‘independence’ as they enslave our ancestors. …

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Controversial monument and KKK hangout reopens for Fourth of July

Despite public outrage and calls for its removal, the world’s largest Confederate monument has reopened just in time for the July 4 celebrations. Featuring a nine-story bas-relief stone of the Confederate “heroes” and slave owners, General Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial …

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