You’ve Probably Never Read The Declaration of Independence
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@LeejaMiller
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
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@a.s.3267
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
The declaration's comments about Native Americans is problematic.
@MaxHymes-c8q
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Yo. It is pathetic and frankly disgusting to see people wanting to "fulfill" the declaration. It is a whits supremacist, christian zist text, period. How do people just slide over the fact that the WHOLE reason for this was the english parliament blocking westward expansion. That is it. It is right there in the text. Everything else is PR and lies and flowery words. To just ignore what actually happened to worship a propaganda pamphlet is ****ing racist intellectual fraud.
@michaellammert8084
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Was required reading out loud in social studies class when I went to school. In history class the Constitution was required reading. Unfortunately we received the white washed version.
@d4mterro320
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Can you please make a video about how we should all snort coke and die since its woke and its based? thank you queen. You are the reason why trump won btw ๐
@DennisTheChicagoMenace
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Recently found out on ancestry that i have an ancestor who signed the declaration of independence
@RetNemmoc555
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
I like how she put the 250-year struggle to uphold higher principles and inherent rights of ALL people as an attempt to "claw back" those rights and principles. A bunch of slave-owning elitist hypocrites got most of the enlightenment parts right, but swept the ALL part under the rug. It would take a day to re-write the Constitution to correct its flaws, but unfortunately a constitutional convention to do this would devolve into oligarch-funded chaos. All we can do is keep clawing and never stop.
@catherineelmandouh7165
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Youโre absolutely correct. Americans are incredibly ignorant.
@Skeptical_Yoshi
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
It's part of why our revolution and how we view it feels different than other countries. It wasn't a revolution of the people, it was one of the highest class.
@LauraLaFauve
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Yes, please. I very much enjoyed listen to those words.
@JCheamus
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Thank you for reading the Declaration of Independence. I really enjoy this refresher.
@Sch2155
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Apparently there are three dates July 2nd, July 4th and August 2nd. If you can read or have any semblance of comprehension then youโll understand.
@Edruezzi
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
A poll found that some people thought America acheived independence from China. More than 20 percent of the American and British publics thought the Sun goes around their home planet. Most of the students protesting for Palestine believe Israel's population's 50 to 100 million.
@luvbugz2-v3n
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Not related to this video, but can you make a video about the recent death of a civilian at the hands of ICE in Houston
@jamesmitchell6925
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
I love this channel. Keep up the great work. I hope youโre enjoying Ireland.
@heatherhenninger-rollins1690
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Loved this! Can you do the Bill of Rights next, please? No one seems to understand them.
@UlikbuNam
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Admittedly, this is the first time Iโve ever witnessed the DoI, too. I would love more videos of your reading vital texts.
@Bigbopper01
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Read the first draft
@parker4340
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
4:58 AND WHEN MEET THOMAS JEFFERSON IMMA MAKE HIM INCLUDE WOMEN IN THE SEAUEO WORK
@somewhatwoolly
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Definitely appreciated this vid. In the future, it might be helpful to further contextualize whatever you're reading, and break down some of the dense, antiquated language for the youngest folks in the audience, and those whose eyes start to glaze over a bit during this sort of thing
@TheoWerewolf
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
I have to point out that in the 16th and 17th centuries, countries and territories such as the Netherlands and Portugal boldly declared their independence from Spain. So the idea that the US was the first is specious. It might get credit as being the first overseas colony to do so.
On the other hand, it's so refreshing to hear an American just come out and say that when the American Founding Fathers said "all men are created equal," they meant "all rich, white property owners" and that men of colour and ALL women were the property they owned, along with land, farms, cattle etc. In fact, one of the motivations for the entire War of Independence was the fact that in the early 1770s, Britain had begun discussing the abolishment of slavery in the Commonwealth and this put the fear of George into the Founding Fathers.
PS: Britain DID abolish slavery not long afterwards.
PPS: Canada ceased to be a colony of Britain in 1867 and did it without a war – so…
@NotMe-s4q
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
And this trouble was started over that Royal Proclamation of 1763. From the sounds of it, Trump is some kind of latter day Geo3.
@Sunmoonwater2026
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
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@snear3os
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
More readings please โค
@handle-r2d2
July 10, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Donโt you ever wonder how different the world would have been had that North Atlantic slave trade not existed? Would the United States have flourished as fast as it did, and would Africa be considered a considered a super-continent due the millions of individuals who would have had the chance to flourish and massively contribute to their respective nations?
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