"The American Revolution Was Hardly an Anti-Colonial Movement": UCLA Historian Robin D. G. Kelley

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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt Ahead of the July Fourth holiday and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we speak with the acclaimed scholar Robin D. G. Kelley, who examines how Black radicals have interpreted the document throughout U.S. history in a new essay for Hammer & Hope. Although the declaration famously asserts that "all men are created equal," Kelley says that clearly did not extend to Indigenous or enslaved Black people. "When the drafters developed this declaration, they assumed that human beings were basically white men," he says. But despite the "hypocrisy" of the declaration, many Black radicals still found value in its words, including a "justification for rebellion," says Kelley. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

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