re: #162 goddamnedfrank

LOL, I’m pretty sure that Chris Rock doesn’t need to be lectured on african american history.

Seems like a mixed but largely disappointing bag for the black patriots. Their people were still enslaved, promises were often unfulfilled and it would be another 89 years until even the beginning of de jure equality was attained through the Civil War. Then another century before the beginning of de facto equality in much of the country with the passing of the Civil Rights Act. In light of all this I’m not sure Crispus Atticus being the first to die, something I’m absolutely positive Chris already knew, is something one nominally “celebrates.”

It is something not well known. Did you know it? Should we not acknowledge the contributions and actions of all Americans? I think so. But again, I seem to not be having a good sales day on this. I’m on twitter; I saw Chris Rock’s tweet; I thought it was not appropriate for the day. And there’s not much that will change my mind.