Cori Bush
@CoriBush
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.
10:48 AM · Jul 4, 2021

Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
Hateful, divisive lies.

The Left hates America. Believe them when they tell you this.

Two years ago, Colin Kaepernick tried to spread the same lies on July 4. I responded with the wisdom of the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass:

https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/amp/ted-cruz-colin-kaepernick-2645842138?__twitter_impression=true

For posterity’s sake, I will argue on the merits just a bit here, though. The United States is not built on “stolen” land. Rather, it’s built on a combination of bought and conquered land via several wars. That makes it not unique at all in the annals of history. Almost every single nation on earth gained and maintained its borders via force and bargaining. Nations that haven’t done so are a result of other nations doing it for them and then protecting them along the way.

In fact, every piece of land the United States now rests on was fought over and “stolen” by some tribe from another tribe long before Europeans arrived. That’s simply the way of the world. It doesn’t mean you don’t recognize the wrongs of history, discuss them, and learn from them. It does mean you resolve to live in the current reality as it exists, observing the totality of history, not just what fits the woke narrative.

As Cruz says, these misleading rants by far-left race grifters are meant to divide and nothing else. Bush wants power, and she sees power in division. There is no need to read any deeper into her rant than that.

Julie Kelly's Disloyal Opposition is the essential book for understanding NeverTrump

It's probably time to start asking if the NBA's subservience to China isn't just about money. //

Stan Van Gundy
@realStanVG
We committed genocide against Native Americans. We have enslaved, lynched, segregated and incarcerated blacks over 400 years. Women couldn’t vote for 140 years. Using abuses elsewhere to try to distract from our own poor record on human rights is dishonest. //

“we” didn’t do any of that stuff. People who are dead did that stuff within the context of their time. That doesn’t excuse past behavior in any moral sense, but there are nuances to different periods in history and it doesn’t work to try to blame current generations for something that happened in 1820. You or I are not guilty for those specific things. It’s a lazy, damaging way to look at the world.

Regardless, it’s hard to describe just how disgusting this tweet from Van Gundy is. Imagine someone from Britain in 1945 arguing that the extermination of Jews happening at that moment is just a distraction from the real issue of the Crusade in 1189. That’s the kind of gross, idiotic logic being applied here.

This is something!

We have every right to fight to preserve our nation, heritage and culture. When vandals like Tammy Duckworth and Ilhan Omar tell us that we’re not allowed to question their patriotism, as they scream about how horrible this country is, we have every right to laugh in their faces.

Philip Wegmann
@PhilipWegmann
What changed? Sanders said Mt. Rushmore made him proud to be an American in 2016, and CNN seemed to agree. Now people want to blast the presidents off the mountain.