Joy Reid Says (National Independence Day) Is the Real (Independence Day) — Here's Why She's Wrong

Joy Reid dismissed the significance of the 4th of July in her recent podcast episode titled "Why Juneteenth Is the Real Independence Day," which featured Alex Wagner, a correspondent at MSNBC. Reid was fired from MSNBC last February, prompting a switch to independent media and podcasting. Reid proclaimed that black people feel about the Fourth of July how Indigenous people feel about Thanksgiving, saying, "Juneteenth, to me, is the real thing that Fourth of July is, because we really weren't a democracy until we ended slavery." She lamented the Fourth as a celebration of "slaveholders who freed themselves from having...