u/LeeLee8320

I’ve seen a lot of Black people posting today about our ancestors being enslaved in 1776 and therefore we shouldn’t celebrate the nations birthday today. This argument makes no sense to me. The same country that enslaved us is also the same country that gave us freedom. The same country that put Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court and elected President Obama twice. I’m not willing to concede my rightful place as an American citizen. Despite her flaws, this is still the greatest nation the world has ever known.

Donald Trump would have never become President if Barack Obama had never been elected President. It is the whitelash to Obama that fueled the resentment needed for the Republican Party to completely abandon all of its long held beliefs, values, and principles, so that they could elect someone who said exactly what they were feeling about the exceptional and brilliant President Obama.

Those of us who voted for Obama had to listen for 8 years as republicans called Obama and his family everything but children of God. We had to put up with Mitch McConnell and his racist assertion that his number one goal would be to make President Obama a one term president. We had to listen to them blatantly disrespect him at the State of the Union when a congressman yelled out you lie during the middle of his speech. We watched with righteous anger as his Supreme Court pick was stolen from him because Mitch was a little bitch who couldn’t take being outdone by a Black man.

He saved the auto industry, kept the world economy from falling into a Great Depression, got the affordable care act passed and signed into law, signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act into law to provide women equal work for equal pay, dismantled don’t ask don’t tell in the military, advocated for marriage equality and signed it into law, gave the order to take out Osama bin Laden, ended the Iraq war, over saw the capping of the deep water horizon oil spill, was a representation for little Black boys and girls that they could aspire to be president if they so chose, let a little Black boy touch his hair so he could feel that the texture was just like his, watched him dote on his beautiful wife and children and mother in law, commutated the sentences of Americans who were imprisoned for low level non violent drug offenses, and comforted the nation through Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, The Charleston 9, Sandy Hook, and so many more senseless tragedies.

Am I right in my assessment of the current political situation?