On Thursday’s Morning Joe, amid a discussion of MS NOW analyst Eddie Glaude’s new book on “how race shadows the nation’s anniversaries,” Rev. and PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton picked up on a Glaude point on the UFC Fight Night at the White House as part of a “hyper masculine” story of the anniversary and bizarrely equated the bouts to “fights for the slave masters.”
The segment focused on the country’s 250th birthday, but the panel seemed skeptical of the Trump Administration’s frame of celebrating the story of America.
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