By Cathy Burke
Newsmax
July 6, 2020
Football player and racial justice activist Colin Kaepernick issued a fiery denouncement of Independence Day, calling it a “celebration of white supremacy.”
In a fierce rebuke, Kaepernick tweeted his condemnation along with a video of actor James Earl Jones reciting Frederick Douglass’s July 5, 1852, speech “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”
“Black ppl have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized by America for centuries, & are expected to join your commemoration of “independence,” while you enslaved our ancestors,” he wrote.