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A'ja Wilson

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Cheyenne Parker-Tyus

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A'ja Wilson

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Dana Evans

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Foundational Black Americans:

I implore yall to please rethink what the 4th of July means to us.

Your ancestors are the only group of people who FOUGHT in every single war on American soil. No other group can claim that. OUR folks fought to literally make America live up to all its creeds about freedom, democracy and justice for all.

America wouldn’t be America if not for YOUR great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great and more matriarchs and patriarchs! They did the work of fighting in every battle that even made July 4 1776 an actual date to commemorate! THEY did that! WE are their descendants and WE can honor them and celebrate them and ourselves, on this day. Some of yall are veterans yourself and come from a long line of military service! Celebrate yourselves! And honor your long family history.

Other groups are arriving to our motherland and are encouraged to celebrate becoming hyphenated citizens, on this very day, while we are being told WE SHOULD NOT celebrate an anniversary of freedom that would not exist if not for our people’s courage and bravery. People are trying to shame us out of ancestral valor…a commemorative day while others, who have no history at all of doing even a fraction to make this day possible, are inspired to? Your family six and seven generations back made an Independence Day possible so you can not only celebrate it but LIVE it! Your ancestors fought those wars before 1776 and after it for YOU and only YOU! They did that for US! THEY are the true patriots!

This is some sinister behavior. And trying to make this day some sorta footnote as if it’s detached from us is heinous. Our own country’s anniversaries aren’t supposed to be celebrated by us but our own ancestors put in work to make it not just an anniversary but a standard of nationalism. It’s an attempt to “other” us to our very own history or to treat our ancestral heroism and heritage as some kinda imported, ‘guests’ in the country our ancestors birth. Or the fact that this day to many has this notion as if it’s only patriotic to the very insurrectionists, deserters, enemies of the state, treasonous unpatriotic people — the very people who fought their own country to secede from itself and abandoned their actual homelands that was not America because they faced persecution and didn’t have the honor to fight on the lands that birth them…this is who many feel this day of independence belongs to? Absolutely not.

A more perfect union…yeah OUR folks, YOUR people made that real! WE make it a constant now.

You don’t allow anyone to make you relinquish celebrating this day and any other national day of remembrance that honors America. It’s yours to celebrate!

You have every genuine right to celebrate this day of independence. That’s what the 4th of July is.

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Lift Every Voice and Sing

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“Let it be said that the Negro soldier did his duty under the flag whether that flag protects him or not." - Edward A. Johnson | New York State Legislator, 1917

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A'ja Wilson

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We are really getting the privilege of watching Serena Williams make her return to tennis!!!!

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She looks good out there!

Her service game is absolutely her source of keeping her in pace. And her service returns.

The only thing I see is when there are extended rallies, she’s getting back to the opposite end of the court a step behind on defense.

(and she’s hitting those down the lines a little too wide. double faults are adding up.)

But once she gets really comfortable again (shaking those jitters off), she’ll utilize those court angles in the vintage Serena way. Kinda playing safe so far (probably a little second guessing herself too)—she’s returning almost 80% of her shots right in her opponent’s zone instead of making use of the full court. It’s expected tho.

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And she pushed it to 3 sets!!! Let’s go, Serena!!

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Listen, I’m proud of her!

It’s her first singles game and she played very well!

I do hope that as she continues to play she expresses that joy of the game she has! That she laughs at herself a bit more and smiles at her own performance. This is why she’s back…because she truly loves the sport!

Her getting herself out of retirement isn’t to chase anything, it’s to play the game she enjoys playing. That enjoyment hopefully displays itself through her being out there.

So hopefully, once she settles into the energy of being back on the court, she gets closer to that.

Forcing a third set on your opponent who is literally half your age is impressive! She did that!

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We are really getting the privilege of watching Serena Williams make her return to tennis!!!!

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She looks good out there!

Her service game is absolutely her source of keeping her in pace. And her service returns.

The only thing I see is when there are extended rallies, she’s getting back to the opposite end of the court a step behind on defense.

(and she’s hitting those down the lines a little too wide. double faults are adding up.)

But once she gets really comfortable again (shaking those jitters off), she’ll utilize those court angles in the vintage Serena way. Kinda playing safe so far (probably a little second guessing herself too)—she’s returning almost 80% of her shots right in her opponent’s zone instead of making use of the full court. It’s expected tho.

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And she pushed it to 3 sets!!! Let’s go, Serena!!

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We are really getting the privilege of watching Serena Williams make her return to tennis!!!!

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She looks good out there!

Her service game is absolutely her source of keeping her in pace. And her service returns.

The only thing I see is when there are extended rallies, she’s getting back to the opposite end of the court a step behind on defense.

(and she’s hitting those down the lines a little too wide. double faults are adding up.)

But once she gets really comfortable again (shaking those jitters off), she’ll utilize those court angles in the vintage Serena way. Kinda playing safe so far (probably a little second guessing herself too)—she’s returning almost 80% of her shots right in her opponent’s zone instead of making use of the full court. It’s expected tho.

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We are really getting the privilege of watching Serena Williams make her return to tennis!!!!

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Brandy::Best Friend

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Shanice

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Gabby Samone . Soft Girl Era

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Venus & Serena Williams — Doubles Matches 🇺🇸

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Gabby Douglas ||🇺🇸 2012 Olympic Individual All-Around GOLD