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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NOTHING, absolutely nothing is EVER going to please the left except for all Christians, Conservatives, southerners, patriots, football fans, people of the western states that like horses, cowboys, cows and such, ‘raslin matches, and such people are gone off the map. Then they might be happy with their solid communist utopia! Good, they can have their gulags, with them in them.
I joined Ancestry.com last year, and the farther back you go, the more skeptical you have to be, and take other people's hints with a grain of salt. I've found errors in connections because of them. After my Mom died I went to Canada to do research and found her line had actually come from England, and settled in downstate New York. My 5th great-grandfather is a Patriot. I also found out that there is Dutch on her side as well. I did my DNA last year, and was told I'm 59% England, Wales and Northwestern Europe, 35% Germanic Empire, 2% Scotland/Ireland, 2% Sweden, and 2% Norway. Blew my mind. On my mother's side I've been able to go back to the 1100's, but like I said, you have to take it with a grain of salt.
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WOW!
So now anitfay says it was just a “right wing hoax”, despite people who live in Gburg confirming they ~were~ gathering there in the middle of the week, already.
They must have had a sudden change of heart...except for the one protester who missed the memo, got set upon and had to be rescued by police.
;)
REALLY????!!!
Cool :)
I would have loved to get my kicks in.
I’m always outnumbered at the brooklyn blm protests by like a thousand to one :)
LOL
and people are worried about blm and antifa winning a war with the Insane people and number of guns on our side??
As we say in ny..forget about it :)
“We cheated the Indians out of Manhattan island, so when do we give that bastion of liberal crap back?”
When does someone show up at Leyla Santiago’s home wanting their land back? I’m sure she would just hand them the keys.
Here’s more slop out of CNN!
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