MS NOW anchor Ali Velshi wants to talk about the “racial politics” of the United States during the country’s 250-year anniversary.
While the rest of the country gears up to celebrate America, it should come as no surprise that there are people who would rather focus on the problems of the past rather than the promise of the future.
Velshi told his audience that he has a “deep unease” about marking the milestone amid what he calls “unresolved racial politics.”
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“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 explained. “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, because this 250th anniversary is taking place during yet another period of deep and fundamental and existential unrest in this country, brought on by the country’s unresolved racial politics.
“That’s what this is. Women and black Americans have seen their rights taken away. The Voting Rights Act has effectively been gutted. A number of states are continuing to gerrymander their congressional maps ahead of the midterm elections, with the explicit effect of taking away political power from black Americans. Louisiana did exactly that. Just a few days ago, it passed a new map that eliminated black majority districts. If you’ve got conflicting feelings about America’s upcoming anniversary, like you want to celebrate the ideals that America strives for, which are noble and should be celebrated, but lament the state of the country. You’re not alone. At least I’m with you on this,” he added.
X users weighed in:
Reckon with its racist past? Maybe he doesn’t know it took a war to convince democrats they couldn’t own slaves.
— Cinco Montana (@realcincoMT) June 1, 2026
Shut up, nerd
— Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) May 31, 2026
Then he should leave and live someplace less racist. Good luck with that.
— Samuel Culper 722 (@politiwars) May 31, 2026
Then stay TF away in your safe space and let the grown-ups celebrate.
— 🇺🇸Fortified Covfefe 🇺🇸 (@XluvnuX) May 31, 2026
MS NOW is a clown network so unserious and disconnected from reality that NBC got rid of them.
— Nic Z (@z649278) May 31, 2026
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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