July 4th, MSNBC-Style: "Imperialism, Genocide, Slavery"

Rich Noyes | July 2, 2012
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Delivering what she called "my footnote for the Fourth of July," MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry, on her eponymous July 1 program, gave her version of the American story: "The land on which they [the Founders] formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class...."

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