I wonder how many black people are celebrating July 4th?

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19. that's rare enough, I mean you can't say those shootings mean

that black people should still think of themselves as entirely excluded. This either/or thing is too much. What about that black people have been in the military and there are some black generals? What about the black president, vice president, supreme court justices, Senators, representatives? Professionals and even millionaires? It's no good ignoring all the progress. The shootings in fact are likely fewer than they were back in the 50s, and better publicized than back in those days, so they seem more frequent. There are a lot more black cops now than back then too. Teachers, desegregated schools. The younger generation has a lot more desegregation than when I went to school, and yet it's only now that black people shouldn't celebrate the 4th? They were probably celebrating it back when things were actually a lot worse.