Bonnie Greer was asked if United States Independence Day was racist? Here are her thoughts in the first of her regular 'Americana' columns for the Byline Times print edition
I was recently asked to debate whether 4July was relevant. Was it even racist?
Declining that invitation rather swiftly, knowing the toxicity of online debate, I asked myself exactly what the question meant.
Did it mean 4 July itself, by its very existence, is racist? Or that it had become racist? What?
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