Joy Reid (right) argued that the Fourth of July is a celebration of “slaveholders,” during a discussion with journalist Alex Wagner (left). Screenshot: Youtube

Former MSNBC host and professional race-baiter Joy Reid is once again vomiting anti-American bile just weeks before the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary of Independence on July 4, 2026.

In a cozy chat with fellow ex-MSNBC castoff Alex Wagner, about Juneteenth and the nation’s founding, Reid argued that the Fourth of July should not be viewed as a unifying national holiday because many of the Founding Fathers owned slaves.

According to Reid, the holiday commemorates “slaveholders who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to the Crown for their slave empire.”

Reid added that Juneteenth is the real Independence Day for Black Americans.

Reid: Apologies to my dear spicy White friends, because I know that my White brothers and sisters do love the 4th of July—it’s Independence Day. Everybody’s barbecuing; it’s a thing.

I can promise you, Black folks, we will take that day off. We will barbecue because we’re off. But Black people—nobody Black I know is really excited about the 4th of July, because it is what Frederick Douglass said it is. It is the celebration of slaveholders who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to the Crown for their slave empire. And that is what it is.

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Joy Reid: “Nobody black I know is really excited about the 4th of July.”

“It is the celebration of slaveholders who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to the Crown for their slave empire.”

Reid was considered a ‘mainstream media’ personality for years. pic.twitter.com/XCjHc82Tt6

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 21, 2026

Reid’s claim that “nobody black I know” is excited is either a lie or a damning indictment of the bubble she lives in.

One X user wrote on X: “I’m black. And I’m thrilled to celebrate our 250th anniversary on the 4th of July! Of course, the only black people who would be friends with Joy Reid are anti-white and self pitying like she is. I’d avoid her like the plague.”

I’m black. And I’m thrilled to celebrate our 250th anniversary on the 4th of July!
Of course, the only black people who would be friends with Joy Reid are anti-white and self pitying like she is. I’d avoid her like the plague.

— Dr. Dina McMillan 🇺🇸 (@drdina1) June 21, 2026

What a lying piece of garbage she is. Some of my black neighbors at my last residence were SUPER excited for the 4th. Some were even investing what looked like over $10k in fireworks each year, and were really happy to light them off for all of us to watch.

— Andrew Copple (@drdeadrewski) June 22, 2026

Odd, considering the black families around me celebrate the 4th with BBQ’s and fireworks, Joy probably doesn’t know anyone like them….

— Based Baker 🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@BasedGamerFL) June 21, 2026

Reid’s parents immigrated from Congo and Guyana. She was born in Brooklyn. Yet she appoints herself the spokesperson for “Black America” while trashing the founding documents that eventually ended slavery and delivered civil rights.

The same Constitution and Declaration that leftists like Reid love to attack are the very tools that made abolition and equality under the law possible.

Real Black Americans have fought in every American war since the Revolution. They’ve built businesses, raised families, served in uniform, and celebrated the birth of the greatest experiment in human liberty the world has ever seen. Cookouts, fireworks, parades, and flag-waving happen in Black communities across this country every July 4th, just like everywhere else.

And yet black Americans have fought honorably in every one of America’s wars. Let’s celebrate the Fourth to honor their service. You in, Joy?

— Matt Romley (@Matt_Romley) June 21, 2026

This is the same Joy Reid who has spent years race-baiting, smearing conservatives, and pushing the narrative that America is irredeemably racist.

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