Modern Red Scare and Nationalist Rhetoric

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And why reporting today from across the world shows different viewpoints on America's two hundred fifty on the past two hundred and fifty years and where this country heads to next In the United States, you have a president bringing back the Red scare Historians say the Trump administration is revitalizing an anti communist message an effort to instill fear and everyday Americans Speaking out about Rushmore last night, Trump reiterated. that communism is the greatest threat to America Aroad, Pope Leo went to Lampedusa known for The island that essentially migrants pass through in the Mediterranean urging the world and especially Americans to come together have compassion for immigrants Mayor Mand Dani, who Trump is talking about offered a different vision for America's future At the same time, we have more information about Fonts possible corruption and gifts he receives and much more I have all the latest this morning on Independence Day. As always, if you can, like, comment, share and subscribe to my Substack link below to support my work. I'll be reporting all day and covering the presresident's speech tonight, watching it so that you don't have to So if you can subscribe to support my work keep me caffeinated unless rock and roll Right now, there are very different visions for America's two hundred fifty on display First, you have Pope Leo Pope Leo, the first American born pope, wrote a letter to the American people, marking the fourth of July with the visit to the Italian island of Lamp Pedusa a major entry point for migrants crossing the Mediterranean, where he urged Americans to welcome immigrants with compassion and generosity. In a letter celebrating the United States' two hundred fiftieth anniversary, the first American born Pope said immigrants have long helped shape the nation's history that protecting human life includes welcoming and assisting those seeking a better future He honored migrants who died attempting the crossing visited a cemetery where migrants were buried met with survivors and celebrated a mass while calling on governments to better receive and integrate migrants This letter says, quote, ammong the principles that have guided the development of this country is the God given dignity of every human life each person being endowed with an inherent worth that calls for reverence, protection, and care. In this spirit A full understanding of this dignity leads to recognize the importance of safeguarding human life. from its beginning at conception until natural death and of building a society in which the vulnerable to suffering and the forgotten are always know with compassion, solidarity, and love Defending human life also includes welcoming, protecting, and assisting immigrants whose hopes, sacrifices, and contribution have formed part of the history of this country from its very beginning In every generation, those who have arrived seeking freedom, opportunity, and a place to belong have helped shape the nation's character to receive them with compassion and generosity is not only an act of charity but also recognition of the dignity that belongs to every human person here at home The President of the United States offered a very different vision for America's two hundred fifty reigniting what many say is a modern day red scare You can be loyal to Carl Markx or you can be Loyal to America You can be a communist or you can be a patriot You cannot be both. As for those who peddal Marxist lies about our heritage who tell our children that we live on stolen land or that our heroes were oppressors, they're doing something much worse than slandering our past. They are slandering and attacking our future. I'm N not going to let that happen They're trying to tear down the great American character to destroy the people who declared independence, who crossed to Delaware, who settled the West and conquered the skies. You know who those people are. But we will never let that happen. Our American ancestors did not shed their blood at Concord and Trenton, Gettysburg and Shiloh, Midway in Normandy, just so that a band of thieves, radicals, and lunatics could come in and loot pillage our nation. Our heroes died to win, build and to save, and to build truly a great country, the greatest country ever in the world Merandani, who he is referencing implicitly, offered a different vision for America's two hundred fifty Every generation of Americans insisting that the right to life The pursuit of happiness extends to them too is no relic of the past It carried millions of Black Americans north during the Great Migration It drew hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans to New York City to the Second World War It invited countless others from the West Indies in South Asia and West Africa and across the world And that is what brought my family to the city When I was seven years old My family did not arrive by boat although we saw the Statue of Liberty from the window of the plane Even from the air, we could make out the promise of America. The promise of the beautiful patriotic work of rendering America year after year a little more faithful to its founding ideals There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it American exceptionalism American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us makes our freedom a little more free is how we dug the Eriie cananal and irrigated the West is why children in faraway lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here And yet the irony is that the story of America. has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth. that they were anything but exceptional. For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores It has not sent its best It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way. worshippping the wrong gods angering the wrong people It sent peasants and serfs from slums and shedtles who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land Its sent immigrants from whom power was something someone else had We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer stronger more powerful than everyone else The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional. Because here Nothing is fixed into place The frontier may be closed We may have walked on the moon the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence That work endures and it belongs to us all It belongs too to our newest Americans. Those standing here with me today all of whom were recently naturalized. nearly a decade ago I too felt what you feel The joy of no longer being just a New Yorker but an American too And while today in Washington, DC, we have America two hundred fifty celebrations. The heat has cancellled the Independence Day parade and DC residents are waking up to white nationalists marching on their streets Seeing these images in our nation's capitol in Washington, D.C, over hundreds of masked men marching with Confederate flags, chanting anti immigrant slogans white nationalist rhetoric. At a time where the Red Scare is back, is really a telling moment in our nation's history I will be covering America's two hundred fifteth all day today and into the late night tonight If you can like, com and, share and subscribe to my Substack link below to support my work, then do me a favor and comment below And let me know what America two hundred fifty means for you whether it's a moment of celebration or a moment of dread. I'd love to learn more, spread the word and I'll see you soon for