Far-Left Nation on July 4: ‘Founders of Our Nation Were Colonizers,’ ‘American Exceptionalism Grounded in Racism’

Breitbart ^ | July 04 2021 | JOSHUA KLEIN

[knighthawk]

An essay published in the Nation on Friday accuses Americans celebrating independence of failing to “reckon with the fact that the founders of our nation were colonizers,” with American “exceptionalism” and foreign policy being “grounded in racism,” adding that issues such as climate change and “racist policing” are the “greatest existential threats” while global terrorism and threats from China, Russia, and Iran, are merely “imagined threats.”

The essay, penned by the Center for International Policy’s president and CEO Salih Booker as well as board member Diana Ohlbaum, carries the title “The Willful Self-Delusion of American Independence Day,” and claims that despite endeavoring to do so, the U.S. has “rarely lived up to ideals.”

[Gene Eric]

The Marxists are attacking every aspect of our existence.

[Migraine]

Our founding is sacrosanct. I will fight to the death anyone who denigrates it.

[skr]

So? Would they rather the colonists had just been raiders instead? How do they think the various parts of the world was populated? People weren’t everywhere to start with. They had to travel to get to where they ended up and established their generations.

[ifinnegan]

They are actually arguing for ethnic separatism.

[lepton]

And the Natives weren’t colonizers?

[Lazamataz]

So many domestic enemies.

So few rounds.

[doc maverick]

EVERY RACE has also been a colonizer.
EVERY RACE has also been held AS SLAVES by another race.

I know this blows the minds of the brainwashed, but it’s the truth.
Whites, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians have ALL BEEN SLAVES and have ALL HELD ANOTHER RACE AS SLAVES.

So brainwashed leftists, BLM and the rest need to GET OVER IT!
The rest of us have MOVED ON from the blotches in our histories.
GET OVER IT AND GET A LIFE—A RESPONSIBLE life and quit demanding special treatment when the rest of us have let go of the past and MOVED ON.
People who wallow in the negative past are just a bunch of WHINERS who think they deserve special treatment.

[Nateman]

The Founding document says ‘that all men are created equal’. Guess that is why the Race Baiters are not going to mention the actual wording.

[NetAddicted]

Oh, that is who is spending so much time denigrating our government.

[4Liberty]

Jefferson’s earliest Drafts of the Declaration called for the Abolition of Slavery. Any scholar worth a damn would know this. https://www.history.com/news/declaration-of-independence-deleted-anti-slavery-clause-jefferson

[wardaddy]

Frankly the Nation has always said this ....

Who was the fairly comely jewish gal.....use to run it.....

Synapses charging confusedly between skull plates bouncing around in nothingness....just a second...I’m trying...

Katrina Vanden Heuvel

I think in the modern era you have to be a Jewish red to run The Nation

Although it was founded by waspy rich abolitionists who after abolishing slavery moved on to Fabian Marxist shit

Go figure right...talk radio and GOPe kneepad on call for abolitionists

So stupid....anyone who listens to Glen Beck needs to be rehabilitated

Anyhow....I used for watch Vanden Heuvel when she was young....I think her battery cable liked either the positive or negative posts ....if you get my drift....her mom Jean Stein committed suicide ...jumped 15 floor Manhattan

Her grandad founded MCA....

I think Christopher Hitchens wrote for her...and of course the insufferable Chomsky

[MarvinStinson]

The connie rag the Nation , huh?

[Mr. Blond]

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, founded this nation for “themselves and their posterity”. Not for you. You could have beat them to it, if you were capable.

[Gene Eric]

+1

[Candor7]

reckon with the fact that the founders of our nation were colonizers,>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Who wasn’t?

Almost all of the US Native American tribes were colonizers. So were most African tribes who practiced slavery along with the Arabs.

Now these Marxists are trying to colonize America.

Bring your ordinance along. you pussies!

[Governor Dinwiddie]

It is sad that these folks blame others for their own failing. Black people are represented in every profession. Society has laid out a red carpet to help any black person ready to achieve and better himself. By and large the folks crying "racism" are too lazy to do the real work needed to advance in modern society. Worse, like a bucket of crabs, they drag those wanting to escape, dragging them back into the bucket. The real enemy of black people is other black people.

[afchief]

Liberals are the most fascist, hate-filled, mooching off others, mean-spirited, envious, resentful, vicious, close-minded, violent, murdering, amoral, stupid, censoring, horse-punching, turd eating,book-burning, ignorant, uneducated, unskilled, childish, prejudiced, racist, women-hating, man-hating, perverted, thieving, destructive, American-hating, Christian-hating, muslim-loving, communist, vulgar, dirty, smelly, regressive, restrictive, prohibitive, bed-wetting, cop-killing, and scared little lying thumb-sucking idiots God has ever created.

[DeplorablePaul]

Summary: America must become a communist puppet nation to redeem its historical sins. All whites will be forced into gulag slave camps and serve the state. Ya know, like the Uyghurs.

[Theophilous Meatyard III]

So desperate to be relevant that they descend into wild absurdity.