New Democratic Talking Point: Uncomfortable Celebrating America's 250th

I  heard this on the news and then had to look it up to make sure I had heard it right. I've been hearing the same talking points lately.  I don't care how Ali Velshi or other hateful liberals feel. We are celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, after America fought the British and won our independence, and we feel happy about that. The 250th anniversary doesn't come along every day.

Would these angry, spiteful people be talking this way if Obama or Biden or Bill Clinton was still the President? I doubt it. It's sheer pettiness mixed with a whopping case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

This has nothing to do with race or slavery, even though some people are unable to deal with life without making everything about race and slavery.

If they don't want to celebrate America, fine!  Go visit North Korea.  But don't stop the rest of us from celebrating the country that we love. 

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MS NOW Anchor Feels ‘Deep Unease’ About Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday: US Has Never ‘Fully Reckoned With Its Racist Past’ 

"MS NOW anchor Ali Velshi told his viewers on Sunday he feels a “deep unease” about celebrating the USA’s 250th birthday — in large part due to the country’s “unresolved racial politics.” He also slammed America as a “so-called democracy” during a rant on his program.

“Anniversaries are imperfect records of the thing which is being celebrated. In America’s case, anniversaries often gloss over the racial dynamics underlying much of America’s history and politics, issues that remain unsolved, because America has never actually fully reckoned with its racist past and its original founding sin of slavery,” Velshi said.

"He continued, “In one month, America will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding. Like previous anniversaries, there is a deep unease about this. I feel a deep unease about the celebrations to which I am invited to mark the 250th anniversary of our so-called democracy.”