Happy Birthday America 250! Thoughts On Blacks In America On July 4th 2026 By Zennie Abraham
Happy Birthday America 250! Thoughts On Blacks In America On July 4th 2026 By Zennie Abraham What prompted this video is a scene I video-blogged at the end of the 2008 Democratic National Convention. It was after Senator Barack Obama was sworn in as the Democratic Nominee for President of The United States before a crowd of 75,000 at Invesco Field in Denver . I was a credentialed blogger and one of the first 128 bloggers (regardless of color) ever invited to cover a DNC Convention. Right after Senator Barack Obama was sworn in as the Democratic Nominee for President of The United States and he gave his speech, fireworks and music started and spontaneously people were flying our flag. The American Flag. But what I noticed was that those people were all black men - here and there around the stadium. It was a stunning and joyrful development. It means that we finally felt that we were 100 percent part of America. That's one main reason I hate looking back, The past was not the best for us as a people, but the present is and its only getting better. We're free to marry interracially and free to be well-educated and now in the third generation of the emergence of a large black professional class. There's so much to be proud of, even of those of us who elect to join another part other than my Democratic Party of which I will never leave. For years I had a hard time with the idea of celebrating Juneteenth, the day that slaves in Galveston learned they were already free. See, to me, Slavery was a sign that we were conqured by evil bad people who were white. The lesson for me was to avoid that happening and be the best and force society via the grace and of God to be better. But now I understand the need to, as they say "never forget" but I think we do too much looking back and not enough giving thanks for now. Not enough celebrating each other, regardless of our differences. Black America is America. Just ask Asian America is America. And Latino, Jewish, and European America is America. We need to celebrate that and take time to help each other. Too often today, the one person standing in a black person's path to success or even life itself is someone else black. We have to stop being each others enemy. We have to love being black and American. Happy Birthday America 250. 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://ift.tt/pq7lFAV
via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrNX2xUQ-08
Happy Birthday America 250! Thoughts On Blacks In America On July 4th 2026 By Zennie Abraham What prompted this video is a scene I video-blogged at the end of the 2008 Democratic National Convention. It was after Senator Barack Obama was sworn in as the Democratic Nominee for President of The United States before a crowd of 75,000 at Invesco Field in Denver . I was a credentialed blogger and one of the first 128 bloggers (regardless of color) ever invited to cover a DNC Convention. Right after Senator Barack Obama was sworn in as the Democratic Nominee for President of The United States and he gave his speech, fireworks and music started and spontaneously people were flying our flag. The American Flag. But what I noticed was that those people were all black men - here and there around the stadium. It was a stunning and joyrful development. It means that we finally felt that we were 100 percent part of America. That's one main reason I hate looking back, The past was not the best for us as a people, but the present is and its only getting better. We're free to marry interracially and free to be well-educated and now in the third generation of the emergence of a large black professional class. There's so much to be proud of, even of those of us who elect to join another part other than my Democratic Party of which I will never leave. For years I had a hard time with the idea of celebrating Juneteenth, the day that slaves in Galveston learned they were already free. See, to me, Slavery was a sign that we were conqured by evil bad people who were white. The lesson for me was to avoid that happening and be the best and force society via the grace and of God to be better. But now I understand the need to, as they say "never forget" but I think we do too much looking back and not enough giving thanks for now. Not enough celebrating each other, regardless of our differences. Black America is America. Just ask Asian America is America. And Latino, Jewish, and European America is America. We need to celebrate that and take time to help each other. Too often today, the one person standing in a black person's path to success or even life itself is someone else black. We have to stop being each others enemy. We have to love being black and American. Happy Birthday America 250. 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://ift.tt/pq7lFAV
via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrNX2xUQ-08
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