Republican Says Black Americans Should Be Thanking White People For Ending Slavery

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated June 20, 2023

On Monday, in the middle of C-SPAN’s Juneteenth program, a man who went by Dave called in and stated “I haven’t heard any Black person say thank you to the over 300,000 white men who died to free those Black slaves.”

But Dave thinks that white people are not getting the thanks they deserve. During the call, the Republican from Texas “argued that

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