Roland Martin
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Shaboozey’s Grammys Speech Erases Black Labor From America’s Story. Backlash Ensues.
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14:48Now PlayingShaboozey’s Grammys Speech Erases Black Labor From America’s Story. Backlash Ensues.
At the Grammys, Shaboozey said, “Immigrants built this country literally” — and left out the unpaid Black labor of slavery that built it, too.
In his Grammys acceptance moment, Shaboozey credited immigrants for building America, telling the crowd, “Immigrants built this country literally,” and dedicating the win to “all children of immigrants.” The backlash wasn’t about celebrating immigrants — it was about what was missing: the free Black labor extracted through slavery that built America’s wealth and infrastructure. The segment frames it as a familiar pattern of American praise that skips the people who paid the original cost, turning “America” into a clean story while Black history gets erased.
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