mekka okereke :verified:@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

Happy birthday America! The United States was started 250 years ago today, but it was not finished 250 years ago today. Our story is incomplete.

Our Constitution is based on ideas from the French enlightenment. But we added racism to their ideas, and corrupted it.

We're still fixing that mistake.

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We are the first country to ratify those brilliant ideas into a Constitution, even beating France to their own inevitable democratic success.

But we were not the first Democracy to remove anti-Black racism from their constitution. And we still have not removed that racism and anti-Blackness.

Full height photograph of the statute of liberty.Hachyderm.iomekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)Attached: 1 image Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! You know the drill by now. I don't like talking about Black history. Americans know Black history. I want to talk about white American history. In other words, racism, and the erasure of both positive achievements of, and injustices suffered by, non-white people. That's what people don't know. Try this: Ask your white US friends what the statue of liberty celebrates. Now ask your Black friends. Or French folk of any color. 1/N #BlackMastodon
Jul 4, 2026, 14:17 UTCen
mekka okereke :verified:@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

Replying to @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

The people whose ideas the Constitution is based on, were almost all anti-slavery abolitionists.
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That's why these French abolitionists gave America a giant anti-slavery statue, called the Statue of Liberty, with broken chains on her feet, as a giant clue that we are starting to get it right.

I love my country. That means I love most of the people in it. Not everyone. I don't like everyone.

I protect the people in this country from those that would hurt them.

That means from the racists, sexists, transphobes, and false patriots that pretend to love America, but hate 70% of its people.