Stop trying to segregate the American founding



Race relations in the United States have unraveled in recent years, not only because of genuine disagreement, but because many Americans now grow up believing the nation is fundamentally unjust — racist to the core, perhaps even irredeemable.

This idea, once fringe, now enjoys institutional backing. Critical race theory and DEI ideology assert that the U.S. was founded on slavery and white supremacy. And they dominate schools, corporations, and government agencies alike.

Don’t displace the Fourth of July. Don’t divide what should unite us.

As a result, America has seen a quiet comeback of sanctioned segregation. Colleges increasingly host race-based graduation ceremonies. Society encourages people to define themselves first by racial identity, not shared citizenship. That should alarm anyone who once marched for equal rights in the 1950s and ’60s.

When Americans stop thinking of each other as fellow citizens, the glue that holds the republic together dissolves.

Juneteenth and the new segregation

Consider one example of this trend: the push for a separate “independence day” for black Americans.

On June 17, 2021, Joe Biden signed Senate Bill 475 into law, establishing a new federal holiday: “Juneteenth National Independence Day.” The bill commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Texas and issued General Order No. 3, announcing that slaves in the state had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation — two years after it was signed.

Former slaves in Texas celebrated, and in the years that followed, Juneteenth spread across the South. But it never held central importance in the broader civil rights movement.

Juneteenth did not abolish slavery. It merely marked the day slaves in one state learned they had been legally freed. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863, applied only to states in rebellion — excluding Union-supporting border states like Kentucky and Delaware, where slavery remained legal until the ratification of the 13th Amendment in December 1865.

A false independence narrative

Some activists now argue that Juneteenth should serve as “Black Independence Day.” That’s a mistake.

This view implies that African Americans have no rightful claim to the Fourth of July or to the principles of the Declaration of Independence. But those ideas belong to all Americans — not just the descendants of the signers.

It’s true that many historical figures sought to exclude black Americans from the promise of the Declaration. Chief Justice Roger Taney made that argument explicit in the Dred Scott decision. Confederates like Alexander Stephens and John C. Calhoun claimed that “all men are created equal” never applied to African Americans.

They were wrong.

What Frederick Douglass really believed

Some cite Frederick Douglass’ famous 1852 speech — “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” — to support the idea that black Americans should reject the founding. But they ignore the full context.

Douglass, speaking two years after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, condemned the hypocrisy of a country that declared liberty while tolerating bondage. “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” he asked. “A day that reveals to him ... the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”

But unlike Taney, Stephens, and Calhoun, Douglass didn’t reject the Declaration. He upheld it.

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Douglass took hope from the principles it proclaimed and called on America to live up to them. He dismissed the Garrisonian claim that the Constitution was pro-slavery. “Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted,” he said, “the Constitution is a glorious liberty document.”

He believed America’s founding held the moral resources to defeat slavery — and it did.

The universal promise of 1776

America’s founders didn’t invent slavery; they merely inherited it. At the time of the Revolution, slavery was a global institution, practiced on every continent and defended by every empire. Slavery, including African slavery, was a manifestation of the argument of the Athenians at Melos as recounted by Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War: “Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” Even Africans sold fellow Africans into slavery.

The Declaration of Independence marked a sharp break from that past. It asserted that all human beings possess natural rights — and that no one may rule another without consent.

Thomas Jefferson famously observed that humanity had long been divided into those born "booted and spurred” and those “born with saddles on their backs.” The founders rejected that model. They established a republic based on equality before the law, not the interests of the stronger over the weaker.

They also knew slavery contradicted those ideals. Many believed the institution would die out — an Enlightenment relic destined for extinction. Still, the political compromises they made to preserve the Union allowed slavery to persist, and it took a war to end it.

Why the founding still matters

The Civil War was not a rejection of the founding. It was a fulfillment of it.

As Harry Jaffa wrote, “It is not wonderful that a nation of slaveholders, upon achieving independence, failed to abolish slavery. What is wonderful ... is that a nation of slaveholders founded a new nation on the proposition that ‘all men are created equal,’ making the abolition of slavery a moral and political necessity.”

The Declaration of Independence lit the fuse that ultimately destroyed slavery.

So let Americans celebrate Juneteenth — gratefully, joyfully, and historically. Let the holiday recall the biblical jubilee it was meant to evoke.

But don’t displace the Fourth of July. Don’t segment America’s founding. Don’t divide what should unite us.

As Douglass said: “I would not even in words do violence to the grand events, and thrilling associations, that gloriously cluster around the birth of our national independence.”

He went on: “No people ever entered upon the pathway of nations, with higher and grander ideas of justice, liberty and humanity than ourselves.”

Douglass understood something too many have forgotten: The genius of the American founding lies not in who it excluded but in the promise that, one day, it would include everyone.

'Gotta keep it quiet': Dean of students who kept DEI alive at UNC reaps the whirlwind



The Supreme Court ruled in June 2023 that the University of North Carolina's race-based admissions processes could not be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Between the time of the high court's decision and the Trump administration's clampdown on federally funded schools with racist policies and programs, the UNC System has taken a number of actions to dismantle its DEI regime.

For instance, the UNC System's board of governors voted in May 2024 to repeal and replace its policy requiring DEI at all public universities in the state; the university system eliminated scores of DEI-related jobs in September; and the system took further action to eliminate vestigial elements of its DEI regime to comply with the Trump administration's requirements.

The dean of students at UNC Asheville recently revealed to an undercover journalist that despite the appearance of compliance, DEI still haunts the institution. Megan Pugh, co-author of chapters in the book "The Black Professional Guide to College Student Affairs" was, however, swiftly terminated following her admission.

'So we've renamed, we've reorganized, we've recalibrated.'

In the footage captured by the conservative watchdog outfit Accuracy in Media, the undercover journalist tells Pugh, "I'm so glad that you guys are still doing equity work."

"I mean, we probably still do anyway, but you know ... gotta keep it quiet," responded Pugh. "I love breaking rules."

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Pugh, who claims in her LinkedIn bio to "center the teachings of black, queer, feminist scholars as well as other BIPOC thought leaders in my leadership, advocacy, and student engagement practices," appears to suggest that the elimination of the DEI office on campus made it "easier to maintain" and that they will continue until "they get mad at us — but they haven't done it yet."

When asked whether the school is supportive of her efforts, Pugh answered in the affirmative.

Pugh suggested that while they have not engaged in implicit bias training since the spring, her "hope and intention is that we can still incorporate those things, like, even sort of under a broader banner of, like, I don't know. I guess we'll see where it fits, but I try to include those things wherever I can."

Last month, Accuracy in Media published additional undercover footage that shows University of North Carolina at Charlotte assistant director of leadership and community engagement Janique Sanders — who received a certification in "anti-racism" from the school — similarly suggest that DEI activities were alive and well at UNC.

In the video, the undercover journalist asks Sanders whether "equity work is still happening." Sanders responds, "So we've renamed, we've reorganized, we've recalibrated, so to speak ... because language changes, right? But the people who have to be in the presence of, and in the space, don't change."

"I think that the guise that we're using in some regard is like leadership — in order to lead diverse groups of people, you have to know about diverse groups of people," continued Sanders. "We don't have to call them 'diverse groups of people.' We can just say that everybody has different stocks of knowledge."

"If you're looking for, like, a outward DEI position, not going to happen," said Sanders. "But if you are interested in doing work that is covert, there are opportunities."

'It's time to clean house at the university level.'

The university has cut ties with both Sanders and Pugh.

UNC Asheville spokesman Brian Hart said in a statement to the Raleigh News & Observer that the university is "aware of a video in which an employee makes comments implying that the University does not comply with UNC System policies or legal requirements and supports employees disregarding such obligations."

"These remarks do not represent the practices of UNC Asheville," continued Hart. "The University remains firmly committed to upholding all UNC System policies as well as federal and state laws, both in principle and in practice."

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Hart noted further that "following a prompt review of the matter," Pugh "is no longer employed by the university."

Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) told Fox News Digital, "The UNC System has made a good faith effort to get rid of DEI, but obviously the word has not reached the ears of UNC Asheville’s administration."

"Dean Pugh is a picture-perfect example of how entrenched this caustic ideology really is within postsecondary education. It's time to clean house at the university level and cast out personnel who believe they can act with blatant impunity," added Foxx.

The efforts to preserve DEI on campus are not subversive only because of their ban by the UNC System but because they are, in practice, divisive and counterproductive.

A study published in November by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University concluded that "while purporting to combat bias, some anti-oppressive DEI narratives can engender a hostile attribution bias and heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punitive behaviors in the absence of evidence for a transgression deserving punishment."

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Liberals rage after Trump welcomes white refugees to US: 'Farce and a sham'



Liberal activists and media personalities have long championed America's acceptance of refugees, especially from terrorist hotbeds like Afghanistan and Syria. They characterized criticism of this acceptance — particularly that born of concerns about national security threats — as racist, xenophobic, and un-Christian, and framed the Trump administration's targeting of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program earlier this year as immoral.

Support for bringing in persecuted people from afar suddenly crumbled Monday after the Trump administration welcomed 59 white Afrikaners at Dulles International Airport under the URAP.

MSNBC's "Deadline White House," for instance, was abuzz with condemnations, ascriptions of collective guilt, and racially charged commentary.

Rick Stengel, a former official in the Obama administration, told a sullen Nicolle Wallace that the admission of a handful of South African farmers — whom major political parties in Pretoria gleefully sing about butchering in packed stadiums — was "deeply and morally wrongheaded and repulsive. These are the descendants of the people who created the most diabolical system of white supremacy in human history, apartheid."

'It's taking places away from refugees who are really being crushed.'

While acknowledging that the landed Afrikaner families, which include numerous young children, were not directly responsible for apartheid, Stengel suggested they were nevertheless beneficiaries of racism and themselves racists. Meanwhile, over at NBC News, talking head Andrea Mitchell alternatively suggested that young children also bore responsibility for apartheid.

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After intimating the white farmers own too much land — a perceived issue South Africa's socialist-run regime appears keen to rectify with its new land-confiscation law — Stengel stated, "There's no injustice here. As you mentioned, it's taking places away from refugees who are really being crushed by authoritarian governments and military governments."

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"It's just a farce and a sham," continued Stengel. "It's like a Batman movie or something where all the bad guys get collected under one roof."

African American studies professor Eddie Glaude, another one of Wallace's apoplectic guests, suggested the administration's supposed white nationalism was evidenced by the admission of a football-team's worth of South African farmers.

Former and current Democrats similarly rent their garments and ran with this narrative.

Former Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) suggested to MSNBC that the problem is the Afrikaners' race, noting that their admission demonstrates the Trump administration's "disdain for people of color."

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Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), fresh off trying to bring a Salvadoran MS-13 affiliate accused of domestic abuse and human trafficking back into the U.S., similarly condemned the acceptance of the Afrikaners, claiming they do not need refugee status and their acceptance was part of a "sick global apartheid policy."

The aversion to bringing in white refugees does not appear to be limited to Democrats and their friends in the media.

'Afrikaners fleeing persecution are welcome in the United States.'

Blaze News previously reported that the Episcopal Migration Ministries, an arm of the Episcopal Church that has served as one of 10 agencies the U.S. government contracts to resettle refugees, announced Monday that it will not help white Afrikaners on account of the church's "steadfast commitment to racial justice."

The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Sam Rowe, revealed in a letter to fellow Episcopalians that rather than resettle farmers from South Africa classified by the U.S. government as refugees, the EMM will end its contract with the federal government by the end of this fiscal year.

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"Any religious group should support the plight of Afrikaners, who have been terrorized, brutalized, and persecuted by the South African government," White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly told Blaze News. "The Afrikaners have faced unspeakable horrors and are no less deserving of refugee resettlement than the hundreds of thousands of others who were allowed into the United States during the past administration. President Trump has made it clear: refugee resettlement should be about need, not politics."

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President Donald Trump told reporters Monday, "It's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about, but it's a terrible thing that's taking place."

"Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white," continued Trump. "Whether they're white or black, makes no difference to me, but white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa."

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday afternoon, "Afrikaners fleeing persecution are welcome in the United States. The South African government has treated these people terribly — threatening to steal their private land and subjected them to vile racial discrimination. The Trump Administration is proud to offer them refuge in our great country."

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Episcopal Church kills government partnership over request to resettle white Afrikaner refugees



The Episcopal Migration Ministries is an arm of the Episcopal Church that has helped resettle nearly 110,000 individuals to communities across the country.

Despite its chatter about inclusivity, the EMM — one of 10 agencies the U.S. government contracts to resettle refugees — revealed Monday that it will not help white Afrikaners on account of the church's "steadfast commitment to racial justice."

The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Sam Rowe, revealed in a letter to fellow Episcopalians that rather than resettle farmers from South Africa classified by the U.S. government as refugees, the EMM is terminating its contract with the federal government.

'Jesus tells us to care for the poor and vulnerable.'

"In light of our church's steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step," wrote Rowe. "Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government."

Rowe suggested that it is "painful to watch" African farmers, a group vilified and targeted with controversial legislation by South Africa's socialist-led regime, "receive preferential treatment over many others who have been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years."

"Jesus tells us to care for the poor and vulnerable as we would care for him, and we must follow that command," continued the bishop. "Right now, what that means is ending our participation in the federal government's refugee resettlement program and investing our resources in serving migrants in other ways."

White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly told Blaze News in a statement, "The Episcopal Church's decision to terminate its decades-long partnership with the U.S. government over the resettlement of 59 desperate Afrikaner refugees raises serious questions about its supposed commitment to humanitarian aid."

"Any religious group should support the plight of Afrikaners, who have been terrorized, brutalized, and persecuted by the South African government," continued Kelly. "The Afrikaners have faced unspeakable horrors and are no less deserving of refugee resettlement than the hundreds of thousands of others who were allowed into the United States during the past administration. President Trump has made it clear: refugee resettlement should be about need, not politics."

Blaze News reached out to the EMM for comment but did not receive a response by deadline.

Rowe's letter went public within hours of the first Afrikaner families' arrival at Dulles International Airport under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Troy Edgar welcomed the Boers Monday, noting that the individuals who had undergone expedited vetting "have went through a lot of stuff and we're just grateful to have them in the U.S."

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The U.S. Department of State announced Monday that it was working with the Department of Homeland Security and implementing partners "to consider eligibility for U.S. refugee resettlement for Afrikaners and disfavored minorities in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination."

To be eligible for U.S. resettlement consideration, applicants must be South African; of Afrikaner ethnicity or a racial minority in South Africa; and "able to articulate a past experience of persecution or fear of future persecution."

This initiative is the result of President Donald Trump's February executive order, wherein he ended foreign aid to South Africa and directed his administration to promote "the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation."

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Trump's order came on the heels of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's January ratification of legislation that enabled the government to seize land without compensation in the name of the "public interest," which is defined under the new law to include "the nation's commitment to land reform, and to reforms to bring about equitable access to all South Africa's natural resources in order to redress the results of past racial discriminatory laws or practices."

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Critics and fellow travelers alike recognized at the time of its passage that the law would be weaponized against white farmers — the very same ethnic minority whom South Africa's Marxist-Leninist political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, routinely chant about butchering.

'A bad place to be right now.'

In the face of mounting indications that the South African government harbors racial animus toward Boers, numerous white South African academics and religious leaders suggested in a recent open letter that the Trump administration has mischaracterized the situation, calling it a narrative "founded on fabrications, distortions, and outright lies."

Unconvinced by such claims, Trump reiterated in March that he was rolling out the red carpet for South African farmers who were worried about their safety, noting that they will enjoy a "rapid pathway to Citizenship" — a process that "will begin immediately."

"South Africa is being terrible, plus, to long time Farmers in the country," Trump stated in a Truth Social post. "They are confiscating their LAND and FARMS, and MUCH WORSE THAN THAT. A bad place to be right now, and we are stopping all Federal Funding."

Rowe noted in his Monday letter that the EMM has asked the Trump administration to "work toward a mutual agreement that will allow us to wind down all federally funded services by the end of the federal fiscal year in September."

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While the Boers' race and origin appear to have ultimately prompted the EMM's decision, Rowe hinted that Trump's suspension of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, which is still tied up in the courts, strained their relationship.

"Since January, the previously bipartisan U.S. Refugee Admissions Program in which we participate has essentially shut down," wrote the bishop. "Virtually no new refugees have arrived, hundreds of staff in resettlement agencies around the country have been laid off, and funding for resettling refugees who have already arrived has been uncertain."

The EMM may soon have absolute certainty about its relationship with the federal government.

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Blistering racial battle explodes between Ana Navarro and conservative pundit Shermichael Singleton on 'CNN NewsNight'



For once, Scott Jennings wasn't the focal point of a heated debate on "CNN NewsNight" — and it's a fair bet he had no problem with that, given what went down on Wednesday's edition.

This time the combatants were far-left CNN political commentator Ana Navarro — whom we also know as a far-left co-host of "The View" — and conservative pundit Shermichael Singleton.

'Because you’ve advocated for black people, great. Congratulations. Last time I checked, I’m black; you’re not.'

The topic was President Donald Trump's deportation policies — but the debate soon morphed into a bitter, fiery racial argument between Navarro and Singleton, with both of them frequently hollering over each other.

Anchor Abby Phillip attempted in vain to rein things in, while Jennings and others around the table stayed out of it. But after continued fireworks, Phillip was forced to cut to a commercial as the battle of words between the two raged on.

You can view the dust-up here — and make sure to check out the words below that Navarro and Singleton fired at each other:

NAVARRO: You know who was here illegally before the deportation order? Marco Rubio’s grandfather.

SINGLETON: We’re not talking about Marco Rubio.

NAVARRO: Oh, now we’re not? Now, that’s not relevant?

SINGLETON: It’s not relevant. It’s not relevant to this conversation at all.

NAVARRO: No, I’m talking about Marco Rubio because Marco Rubio used to be an advocate for [Temporary Protected Status] for Venezuelans, and Marco Rubio used to be an advocate for Nicaraguans and Cubans.

SINGLETON: Well, I’m not Marco Rubio —

NAVARRO: No, I know you’re not.

SINGLETON: — and let me tell you my beliefs. If you come to this country illegally, you are going home. Simple as that. We do not have unlimited resources in this country to take care of other people.

NAVARRO: There’s a hell of a lot people other than the black people who were brought here as slaves who came to this country illegally.

SINGLETON: They are not the same as black people who were brought here against our will. [Illegal immigrants] decided to walk their butts across the border. There’s a big difference. There is a big difference! There’s a big difference, Ana!

NAVARRO: That’s exactly what I just said. I said there is a lot of people other than the black people! That's exactly what I just said! That's exactly what I just said, Shermichael! [You] look and act indignant!

SINGLETON: It's not about acting indignant.

NAVARRO: Yes, it is!

SINGLETON: You're acting as if you have the moral high ground here.

NAVARRO: You just heard me say that other than the black people who came as slaves there are a lot of people from many countries that came here illegally!

PHILLIP: I think you misheard what she said.

SINGLETON: Okay. Okay.

NAVARRO: No, he purposely misheard it!

SINGLETON: I purposely misheard it?

NAVARRO: Yes, you did!

SINGLETON: Now you’re in my brain? Is that where we're going?

NAVARRO: You think [that] I who have advocated for black people my entire life would say something like that? Give me a d**n break!

SINGLETON: Because you’ve advocated for black people, great. Congratulations. Last time I checked, I’m black; you’re not.

NAVARRO: That’s right! I’m Latino, and my people are being racially profiled!

SINGLETON: Do I have to remind you the history of my people? Do you want to go there? Do you really want to go on the moral high ground? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?

(H/T: Mediaite)

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