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Chris Rock Called The Fourth "White People's Independence Day"—He Wasn't Wrong

Jul 04, 2026

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In 2020, the blogger Z-Man (John Christopher Zander, who died in 2025) wrote

Next weekend is White-People Independence Day, you know if Juneteenth is Black People Independence Day, well, that means that we get to claim July 4th as our Independence Day. So we’ll call it White Independence Day, you know, “WID.”
Letters To The Underground, June 26, 2020

White People’s Independence Day is what Chris Rock called it in a notorious Tweet during the Obama Administration:

Chris Rock@chrisrock

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks

1:39 PM · Jul 4, 2012

2.4K Replies · 16.1K Reposts · 9.26K Likes

Back before the Civil War, escaped slave Frederick Douglass asked “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” His answer: not much. And to the slaves’ descendants, apparently, less.

We might now ask “What To The White Man, Is Juneteenth?”

Juneteenth, as many people only learned in 2020, is the day, two months after the surrender at Appomattox, that slaves in Texas finally learned, from Federal troops, that the Confederacy had lost, and they were now free, thanks to the wartime 13th Amendment. (Not the Emancipation Proclamation—that applied only to slaves in states that were in rebellion, so that, for a brief bizarre period, one person legally enslaved in places where General Grant was campaigning was a maid owned by Mrs. General Grant, who often accompanied her husband and was not required to free her slave because she herself was not a rebel.)

It’s clear that Juneteenth is about black people. That allows us to be clear that the Fourth of July, like most of American history, is about white people. Although black people refuse to accept it, most of American history (including the Civil War) is not about them.

This is the whole point of the New York Times’s much-refuted, but not withdrawn or apologized for “1619 Project.” Their idea—their crazy idea—is that the American colonists only rebelled against Britain because they could see into the future, and realized that 19^th Century Britain would become abolitionist, and free their slaves.

Be that as it may, one of the reasons many blacks have been refusing to stand for the anthem is that they’re not loyal to the United States of America because the Historic American Nation is white.

That doesn’t mean that no one but white people can be American, just that the symbols of the American nation—George Washington, Uncle Sam, even Lady Liberty—are white symbols and that’s why many blacks (like Chris Rock) and non-white immigrants are aggressively anti-patriotic.

For the rest of us, well, John Adams, discussing the vote that had just been taken by the Continental Congress in favor of independence, said that it

“will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this Continent to the other from this time forward forever more.”

Thanks to the minor miracle of the 2024 election, America has a President who agrees with John Adams.

Do you think Kamala Harris would have sincerely celebrated America’s 250th? She would have apologized for America all year.

Instead, we get this:

Happy Independence Day!

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Patrick Cleburne

Jul 4

"We might now ask “What To The White Man, Is Juneteenth?

Juneteenth is about black people. That allows us to be clear that the Fourth of July, like most of American history, is about white people. Although black people refuse to accept it, most of American history (including the Civil War) is not about them."

Kate Taylor

Jul 6

The idea that blacks have no interest in July 4 misses the reality that our constitution ultimately paved the way for abolition. After the civil war blacks could fully participate in the politics (not with standing regional constraints). Social influencers like Rock don’t speak for all blacks. I went to the 250th anniversary and there were plenty of blacks wearing red, white, and blue and enjoying the festivities. We need to stop amplifying the nay sayers. They don’t speak for all.

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