MS NOW’s Ali Velshi, during a recent segment, gave an insane take on America’s upcoming 250th anniversary, insinuating that Americans should have “conflicting feelings” about celebrating the Fourth of July this year because of slavery.
Velshi, a Kenyan-born Canadian citizen who just got his US citizenship in 2015, felt the need to lecture Americans about “racial dynamics” and attack our history.
“Anniversaries are imperfect records of the thing which is being celebrated,” the America-hating foreigner.
“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 went on to tell viewers of the failing news network that he feels “deep unease” celebrating “our so-called democracy,” because of… “unresolved racial politics.”
“omen 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 on black Americans,” he continued.
“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.”
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Velshi: 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.
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.
As noted by social media users, this is the same guy who, during the 2020 George Floyd riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota, infamously described the scene as “mostly a protest” as a massive fire raged on behind him.
“I want to be clear in how I characterize this,” he said. “This is mostly a protest. It is not, generally speaking, unruly, but fires have been started and there is a crowd that is relishing that.”
Via Western Lensman:
Minneapolis, May 2020.
Velshi as fire raged behind him: “This is mostly a protest. It is not, generally speaking, unruly.”
Same guy. https://t.co/AP313kJGPE pic.twitter.com/52KZp5gqk1
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 31, 2026
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