Democrat Cori Bush slams the Fourth of July, claims 'Black people still aren't free' Left-wing activists and news organizations shared comments disparaging Independence Day
By: Lindsey Kornick
Talk about divisive rhetoric regarding the 4th of July, Independence Day, fireworks, the flag, and the 1776 founding of our country by our founding fathers and their documents. These people hate America and everything America and our flag stands for. Let’s see the progressive left who thought my traditional pro America traditional Independence Day articles were divisive have to say about all this!
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Democrat Cori Bush slams the Fourth of July, claims 'Black people still aren't free'
Left-wing activists and news organizations shared comments disparaging Independence Day
One Democratic lawmaker and several left-wing figures used the Fourth of July to share controversial statements or disparage the founding of the United States.
Democrat Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo, tweeted out, "When they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, remember this: the freedom they’re referring to is for White people. This land is stolen land and Black people still aren’t free."
There were some who agreed with Bush's comments, like congressional candidate Shahid Buttar. He replied to her tweet saying, "Speak it, @CoriBush! It’s almost as if our entire country has been brainwashed to ignore our history—and how its worst elements continue today—despite our self-congratulatory rhetoric."
Former MSNBC anchor Toure was far more vocal, tweeting out "F--k Independence Day. Not only were we not free, the whole reason the Colonies wanted independence was because Britain was moving toward abolishing slavery. Why would Black people celebrate a day so wrapped up in our enslavement?"
He also tweeted out his own opinion piece for the website The Grio titled "F--k Fourth of July: The only independence day I recognize is Juneteenth."
Actress Alyssa Milano also disparaged the Fourth of July by sharing a TikTok video of herself reading, "Reminder: The United States was founded on the unjust treatment of Native Americans, Africans and other people of color."
News organizations also took the opportunity to use the holiday to criticize the United States and its history.
NPR tweeted out a thread of the original Declaration of Independence, claiming it to be "a document with flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies." It also remarked immediately that the document "says ‘that all men are created equal’ — but women, enslaved people, Indigenous people and many others were not held as equal at the time."
The Washington Post went even further by posting several opinion pieces that critique the holiday or use it for political partisanship. These pieces included " The Fourth is for complainers ," " Independence Day 2021 is an apt occasion to celebrate America’s liberation from Trump ," and a perspective piece titled " July Fourth is Independence Day for two countries. But for one it is hollow ."
This followed the New York Times opinion piece that suggested the American flag became a symbol of divisiveness. In the article titled "A Fourth of July Symbol of Unity That May No Longer Unite."
"Today, flying the American flag from the back of a pickup truck or over a lawn is increasingly seen as a clue, albeit an imperfect one, to a person’s political affiliation in a deeply divided nation," the article states.
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Your literally endless praises of the founding fathers , not just around the 4th of July but 365 days a year, is an example of what infuriates people such as those mentioned in this article.
No doubt unlike you, I looked at the article by Toure in The Griot. It contains Frederick Douglas' thoughts on the slaves view of the 4th of July -
“A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.”
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No one can go back and rewrite history , and until very recently the history of the treatment of blacks and other racial minorities, particularly the American Indians, has been utterly abysmal in America.
Recognize that and admit that and maybe the nation can completely move forward. Deny that and continue the pollyanna pretending that the founding of the nation was totally a celebration of equality and freedom and the problems we face with race may never end.
Every time I see an article like this, it strikes that there is nothing better the right would like than a regime like North Korea, Russia, or Iran where they could arrest anyone that dared speak badly about something. That seems to be what they are indicating every time someone says something they don't agree with.
All hail the New North Korea, opps, I meant All Hail the New Christian Confederacy of the Divided States of Amerikka. Yea!!
That seems to be what the conservative right wants isn't it?
Hearing on daily basis how bad present day blacks supposedly have it, one of reduced mental capacity might conclude that systemic slavery still exists.
America badly mistreated people of color for over 350 years (much more depending if you go back to Columbus) and there are people alive today who took part in that mistreatment and suffered from it. Not enough time has passed since the mid 60's when some of these issues were addressed by Congress in the form of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Yes there has been progress, but still not enough. It takes time to repair the damage of centuries. One or two generations is not near enough.
Just man up and take your medicine.
The problem I see with this is that to some people, the solution to "take your medicine" is to reverse the field and put the Blacks in charge of everything. That ignores that not all whites are oppressors and not all blacks are oppressed. That's one of the greatest things about this country, that we are not born into a caste system but are all born with the same great potential to better ourselves.
Now the first place where I think this country fails is the education system. Schools are funded by property taxes and some areas of the country are better off financially than others and have the ability to provide better funding to their local schools. But others do not have the funding and fall short of being able to provide the same levels of education. So children come out of school with less abilities to better themselves. Then government gets involved with standardized tests to show the education level of the children in an attempt to identify where to direct resources and they tie money to test results and golly gee what a surprise the schools start to teach towards passing the tests rather than actually teaching the children. Add more political BS to the mix and it's a wonder that Johnny is able to read at graduation .
Fix the funding for the educational system, take the political and social BS out of the system and get back to teaching children the basics. Teach reading, writing, science, ethics, and above all else how to think.
I dont really have any objection to that in general, but I do think public schools have an obligation to teach children social studies, because if they dont no one else will. Parents and families will pass along their own prejudices to their children.
Conservatives seem to prefer a "sanitized" history of this country. Progress will be easier and quicker if we tell kids the truth about the course of this nation.
Agreed, social studies, civics, government. I also agree with telling the entire truth. My problem, and we see such stories from all over, where the school systems have gone too far in reversing the sanitized history. As i said, not all whites are oppressors and they should not be taught that they are. Teach the truth without any political or partisan spin.
When do you believe America was founded?
t takes time to repair the damage of centuries. One or two generations is not near enough.
Does this apply to other groups? How many people do you believe have pure oppressor lineage going back hundreds of years?
All the Greeks and Italians no doubt.
The mistake that some whites make is that when someone says "all whites are racist" they take it as a personal insult against them as an individual. That is not what is being said by that phrase.
As far as school goes, we should stop putting individuals like Washington and Jefferson up on a pedestal for children to admire. First of all it is not necessary to the creation of a good citizenry and second it it problematic historically.
Yes , they were men of their times but we are not in their times anymore.
This is beyond your grasp at the moment.
It doesnt matter if every individual white is racist or not. America is historically a "white" country, run by whites with white interests at the forefront. Changes in that to some degree are very recent.
When someone says all whites are racist they are talking about the "all" part, not you as an individual.
It's not anyone else's fault if people like you don't understand that.
Then what is being said? It's four little words, the meaning of the four words is known and accepted, so what is being said here that means something different than what those 4 words say?
How can you argue with that kind of logic?
And I obviously do not agree with that statement.
When this country was founded there were some free blacks. Yes, not many but there were some. But for the most part, the leadership of this country at the start was white men. But this teaching takes the issue out of context. It isn't right to judge the founding fathers by todays standards any more than it would be right to judge you by their standards.
And when someone says that "all" whites are racist, it really does mean to me that they are including me as I am part of that whites group. So unless you are changing the meaning of words it's difficult to tie up your statement.
There are people alive that are 350 years old?
Holy shit!!!!What are they? Vampires?
True, but I submit that civics should also be taught...and truthfully.
We want our children to know how government is supposed to work, not how some illiterate teacher's aid wants the government to work.
According to most liberals, all of these proud Americans are nothing more than tokens.
Even if we go by the dubious conclusion that racism ended with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, anyone over the age of 57 was alive during a period of legal racial discrimination. Lets even require that they have been teenagers at that time, that still leaves everyone over 70.
What exactly is your point, assuming you are trying to have one?
Let me ask you a question. Did the treatment of people of color change on July 4th 1776? It did change when they arrived in Virginia in 1619 though.
"Yes, they were men of their times but we are not in their times anymore."
Then please tell us why so many people on the liberal left insist on judging them by the standards of the current times?
"Then please tell us why so many people on the liberal left insist on judging them by the standards of the current times?"
That is a very good point and I have to remember it
I live in Arizona. The idea that Arizona passed a law suppressing voters here is totally ludicrous to most Arizonans. The ones claiming voter suppression are clueless liberals who do not live in or near Arizona. As you have already correctly stated, SCOTUS has already decreed that there was zero voter suppression anyway. Done deal and end of story.
If Corey Bush thinks blacks are not free, she might want to let the authorities know that she, as a black woman , who makes 174,000 a year, is being used as slave labor by some unknown owner.
I swear the people with the biggest mouths are those that are members of the one percent they claim to hate. Maybe she needs to give up some of that unearned cash she has and go all out socialist she worships and give it to every other " held down" black person.
What an idiot. A member of Congress publicly attacks her country without having to fear punishment and claims she isn’t free.
She’s obviously a fool, but How dumb are the people who vote for her?
Sounds like someone else who has been impeached twice and had indictments blocked by his own DOJ.
Lol. The best deflection you can come up with is equating her to Donald trump and you still have to resort to making things up about him to do it
. No surprise progressives would rally around someone they equate to Donald trump, as long as she’s on their side.
Not a deflection, just an observation of the hypocrisy shown by some right wing pundits.
I don't have a problem with what they said. It appears to be truthful.
Are you saying that the WHITE Americans didn't steal the land from the Natives?
Now dont go bringing something divisive , like the truth, into this.
Are you saying this isn't in the DoI or that isn't true?
But according to Texan 1211 on another comment thread , you guys are fine with this. So why point it out?
If there is, I do, as you well know. However, XXXJefferson51, seems to have a difference of opinion from you. So I would suggest the 2 of you hash it out.
Sure they did, but that's what happened in the 18th and 19th century. It's called history.
What do you feel about Africans stealing land from other Africans. Should they give that land back?
Lol.. It was either conquered or bought. Just like it was before "white Americans" existed.
Every piece of land worth owning has been conquered at one time or another in history. Everyone is a descendent of conquerors and conquered, particularly in America. The idea that anyone living has pure title to a piece of land back to the dawn of humanity is laughable.
Somebody ask Maxine what her net worth is again?
Who in turn took it from other native populations before them over the millennium?
Sounds like someone believes in the First Amendment. She also believes in the US Constitution and the Rule of Law. Something most righties can't follow or believe applies to everyone. Only THEY get rights for the Bill of Rights, the rest of us can suck it up.
I don't believe you read Sean's comment correctly. It's obvious to me that what he said was that due to her First Amendment rights, she was able to attack her country without fear of punishment.
If you can cry to the heavens that you are not free, while you are free from the worry of reprisals, really seems like stupid to me.
No doubt, but we also have the First Amendment right to call her out as a racist idiot.
Most clueless bigots like Bush usually are foolish to a large degree.
One only has to listen to her hate filled rants. She is on the same level as Omar, Tlaib, Presley, and the rest of the so called "Squad".
The Stolen Land one above for starters, but I'm sure you disagree so why bother?
Thank you for proving my point. You have a nice day now. Goodbye.
Oh but you did. You just cannot see it.😏
If she does not like the 4th of July, she can celebrate Juneteeth