From this wingnut’s point of view:

The role of African Americans in ANY U.S. war is woefully under-covered in textbooks and elsewhere.

Chris Rock could have done some very basic research as to the role of African Americans in the American Revolution. No where is it denied that many of the blacks were slaves at the time, or former slaves.

He could have learned about Crispus Attucks, who stood up to the British with a STICK as a weapon and was the first person shot in the Boston Massacre.

Further, he could have introduced people to Benjamin Quarles, an African American scholar, historian, teacher and writer, who took particular interest in the role of African Americans in US wars, and who attempted to study and try to figure out what sort of reasoning the early African Americans had for participating in such wars.

In other words, instead of making a dickish remark that implies African Americans have little reason to celebrate this holiday, he could have opened up a line of information to people who may not be aware of the contributions of African Americans during that war.

And that’s what pisses me off. I could proceed and say something nasty right here, about this information being brought to you by your resident slack-jawed, drooling racist southerner. But I won’t.