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I was just looking here. I don't think they ever like to celebrate the 4th of July African Americans. There's 5,000 to 9,000 African Americans on the Patriots side. They served in both integrated and segregated units. Some of the first casualties of the Boston Massacre in 1770 were African Americans. Many free blacks joined the Continental Army and local militias. The British promised freedom of enslaved people if they fled the Pentagon, so they stay out here. The fight to the crown and tens of thousands tried to escape to British lines. Tens of thousands tried to escape to British lines. Some made it out and later settled in Canada and the Caribbean. Funny thing is, they could celebrate the independence of America and the Declaration of the South in 1776. But truly, African Americans really didn't get the freedom until after Martin Luther King. It took a long time in 1776, you know, that they did the right to use the bathrooms to go into a restaurant. You know, there were black restaurants, white restaurants. They were sitting in the back of the bus. All that crap went on back then. It's only been, you know, the last, what, 60 years? No, 50 years. That's sort of really going away. So it took us a long time to get there. But I think they could celebrate the Fourth of July. They fought for this country too.