Independence Day: Here’s a Holiday we should look at from the Brits’ perspective. I just learned that prior to the US dumping the Brits, the Brits had incurred great costs saving us from another invasion.
That the colonists were taxed at a rate 25% of the rate Brits were taxed. So the colonists’ tax revolt made them appear pretty ungrateful.
That the Brits saw us as a colony that wanted to preserve slavery.
That even Thomas Jefferson viewed the Boston Tea Party as an act of vandalism.
On the subject of slavery I reckon that Africa’s debts should be wiped clean as reparations for the damage us Europeans and Yanks dd with the slave trade.
I’ve always found it a bit daffy that we (as Americans) celebrate July 4th, rather than March 4th (the day the constitution went into effect). July 4th is just the day the first couple of people signed a non-binding contract.
I personally refer to the 4th of July as “f*ck off Britain” day, because that’s really what it represents.
Re: Independence Day, USA slavery and not paying your fair share
People were pissed because of taxation without representation. They had no say over where their tax money went or in government affairs. What if your state didn’t have any congressmen, would you like paying congress money so it could be used on other states?
Britain was a dieing empire at the time, this was just one more colony that was getting pissed off. (They didn’t get out of India and Hong Kong until recently)
Re: Re: Independence Day, USA slavery and not paying your fair share
Britain was so not dying…1776 was about 150 years before the first African and Asian nations began to fight for/get freedom…They just lost one colony(albeit a large one) but they had loads more…I would say early last century was when they slowly began to lose power…America was the first to get freedom, I think…
July 4 is a day when we eat hot dogs, made from what might be considered meat, from what might be a pig. We cook them outside where it’s 95 degrees, instead of in our air-conditioned homes, and then we blow up a bunch of fireworks, all of which were made in China.
That’s America!
Reparations in Africa for slavery? How about right here, to the trodden-upon descendants of the people who were the acual slaves?
And what about America’s native peoples? We treated them a lot worse. Now they are in the process of getting a little bit even with casinos.
Damn.
