re: Spurs rookie Lonnie Walker: ‘Will never celebrate 4th of July. Know your history’

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Obviously I don't object to Juneteenth, but black Americans are Americans, and the 4th celebrates America (including them).

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I agree with you. It's just a manner of looking at it from a black person's perspective as well. In one way its like being forced to the party and having to endure this and that for years until it was "okay" to be at the party. And even then, being sent back "home" after X amount of years to a culture and a country you know nothing about.

On the other hand, one way i see it, its celebrating the birth of this nation. One that is better than the others throughout this world with liberties that other people and countries do not have.

Of course i can only speak from my history and what i know and the time i live in today. Some will hold the past over their head and carry it to the future and into anything and everything. But i believe its best to at least know "your" whys and whens in history and take from it what you can.