On the 4th of July, Congresswoman Cori Bush, a black woman who believes she is not free but somehow managed to be elected to represent Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, tweeted “When they say 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.”
No, this land was conquered, just like most if not all inhabited land on the entire world was taken and conquered by a group of people. They just happen to resent that this time, Europeans, were the conquerors.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz responded to Cori Bush, ensuing in one of those twitter controversies that seem to drive the political conversation daily. Cruz slammed the democratic representative and said that Bush’s Independence Day post was “divisive” and “hateful.” The Senator also noted that the “Left” hates the Unites States of America.
He responded to Bush writing, “hateful, divisive lies.” He continues, “the Left hates America. Believe them when they tell you this.”
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1412070126052986887?s=20
He then continued the tweet with a thread about Frederick Douglas, writing:
“Frederick Douglass loved America. He rightly denounced the grotesque evil of slavery, which in 1852 was tragically still legal. But, thanks to the heroic leadership of Douglass & other abolitionists—and a bloody Civil War—we ended that abomination.
Douglass closed, ‘I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from ‘the Declaration of Independence,’ the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age.’
Douglass rightly—and ferociously—called out injustice. But contrast Douglass’s hope, optimism, passion for justice, and unifying call for America to live up to her grand ideals with the ‘Squad’s’ angry, hateful, consistently anti-American venom.
All of us should reject fear & anger. We should fight to further our Nation’s founding promise that “all men are created equal.” And we should be encouraged by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s exhortation, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Democratic California Representative Maxine Waters, also contributed to Cori Bush’s poisonous rhetoric by going on an anti-America rant on Sunday.
In one tweet, she wrote “July 4th… & so, the Declaration of Independence says all men are created equal. Equal to what? What men? Only white men? Isn’t it something that they wrote this in 1776 when African Americans were enslaved? They weren’t thinking about us then, but we’re thinking about us now!”
