Posted on 07/04/2020 10:22:56 AM PDT by rktman
On Friday afternoon, conservative Twitter "pounced" on CNN reporter Leyla Santiago who told Jake Tapper "kicking off the Independence Day weekend, President Trump will be at Mt. Rushmore where he'll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans, told that be focusing on the effort to, quote, tear down our country's history."
Naturally, CNN wanted to stress to celebrating Americans that they should think first of "historically marginalized groups" in this time of "racial reckoning."
LEYLA SANTIAGO: Fireworks, parades, ceremonies. The celebration of U.S. independence once declared by founding fathers that wrote "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." But the very rights being celebrated on Independence Day are the same rights that millions of Americans say they and their ancestors have not been allowed to enjoy.
SANTIAGO (on camera): What does Independence Day mean to you?
JESSE HOLLAND, AUTHOR: I will always be a proud American. But that doesn't mean I don't realize the faults and the flaws that this country has.
SANTIAGO: For historian and author Jesse Holland, that includes the injustice that has led to unrest across the country, the inequalities in communities of color highlighted by a pandemic.
HOLLAND: I think it's fair to sometimes question whether America loves African-Americans as much as we love it.
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The media giants hate this country. Is there any other country on earth where this is true? Why here?
If they don’t like it here, then they should get out and go to somalia.
There has and is black Senators, congressmen and women, mayors, sheriffs etc oh and a past President who ruined the country and only care about his racial and bathroom agenda. They have all the chances , no sorry they have more chances than whites yes they still complain about anything, and everything.
We do not have white bike week, white entertainment channel, white colleges, caucasian college funds, white Miss America, affirmative action, racial quotas for the less suited for a job, or position, lower business loans, lower mortgage rates etc etc etc
Yet some have been going around attacking whites, showing their racism , setting up whites to get a reaction so they play the victim, and they still frigging moan and complain.
CNN wanted obama’s face on there as did most on the lunatic left. So much hypocrisy from the left just like black lives matter but white lives are not to them.
She can spit on the Founders but keeps her job.
It’s good to be part of Spaniard Reconquista Victim Group.
And before Lincoln freed slaves, Washington and Jefferson laid the groundwork.
“I think it’s fair to sometimes question whether America loves African-Americans as much as we love it.”
Other races, not loved at first, and in America much less time, have somehow grown to be accepted and learned to prosper. Why is this, do you suppose?
Reminds me of an incident at Bill Clinton’s inauguration - One person made a derogatory comment about a USAF fly over of DC and another Dem replied (more or less) “Hush, those jets belong to us now.”
That was the late Ron Silver, who over time became more Conservative.
Thank you.
Name one person in the world who is socially pure enough for the communist party.
We cheated the Indians out of Manhattan island, so when do we give that bastion of liberal crap back?
“..and on land wrestled away from Native Americans...”
Well CNN reporterette, your HQ sits on land wrested from the Cherokees and Creeks! What say you? Bitch.
This is why CNN wins so many Pulitzer Prizes. The fascists who hand out these awards hate America.
Well if they don’t like their color they can blame their parents.
OR, as in the old PBS movie, THE LATHE OF HEAVEN (1980)....
“When Haber directs George to dream a world without racism, the skin of everyone on the planet becomes a uniform light gray.”
Betcha they would still find something to whine about.
Where were all these geniuses a month ago mount Rushmore is been there for decades right now all the sudden?
Oh yeah groupthink brainwashed lemmings
***We cheated the Indians out of Manhattan island***
The other way around. According to Louis L’Amour, the Dutch bought the land from Indians, who just happened to be traveling through, and did not live in that area.
The Dutch later had to build a wall, now Wall Street, to protect themselves from those “Sauvages” who did live there and missed the payoff.
“We cheated the Indians out of Manhattan island,...”
So to the Indians, a chest full of beautiful, colorful beads would represent lifetimes of work. The fact that Dutch factories could turn them out by the shipload was unimaginable to them.
And then there was the miracle of iron pots that you could cook in and would last lifetimes. Indians probably thought they were ripping us off.
Didn’t both hill and oh visit the Mt?
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