When this year’s Independence Day arrives, it will be the 250th anniversary of the United States going back to July 4, 1776. That is the day the delegates representing the 13 colonies cast votes to adopt a document, named the Declaration of Independence, written to a very unhappy King George III.
The famous signing of the Declaration came weeks later, when 56 delegates put their names on an official copy, but the document approved July 4 informed King George the colonies had voted to dissolve their “political bands” with what was the most powerful naval and economic empire on the Earth at the time.
In light of that history, the Project 21 Black Leadership Network wants to push back against all the recent gloom and doom of the left as the country celebrates its birthday on Saturday.
For black conservatives, America's 250th anniversary represents our nation's progress from slavery to freedom.
Terris Todd is a former White House Education Department appointee under Trump, who now serves as director of outreach and coalitions for Project 21.
"We're not perfect by any stretch. We never have declared that we are a perfect nation, but we are striving for a more perfect union in our Constitution, in our faith in God, in our belief in God and whatnot, and our patriotism affirms the fact that we're looking for a more perfect union going forward, and it allows us to do that,” Todd says.
Furthermore, he continues, saying that the system in America works.
“There's no kings here, there's no dictators here. We have a system of government that works. We believe in capitalism, and we believe in loving people and being generous. We're the most generous nation in the world," Todd says.
The nation continues, he states, to be in a spiritual war against a far left that is increasingly embracing evil.
"You get all these people who are supposedly hating our country and trying to adopt these communistic ways. It's not like history has not shown us and proven to us that communism and socialism doesn't work, and it certainly won't work for America,” Todd says.
However, he thinks the same people rooting for socialism and communism in the country are also the one who are getting the spotlight on the news.
“These are the people that's being elevated. I really don't think that, if people are educated properly here in this country about what socialism or even communism is, I truly don't believe that the vast majority of America would agree with that,” Todd says.
Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council, recently shared how socialist candidates are gaining ground in America, especially among the Democrat Party, which would have been unimaginable 50 years ago.
“Socialism is not America’s greatest problem; it is a symptom of a deeper spiritual and moral decline. Political movements rise and fall, but the endurance of a republic is ultimately determined by the character of its people,” Perkins wrote on AFN.
Victor Joecks, an award-winning columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, recently shared there are plenty of reasons to wonder about America’s future. In a recent column, he said some groups openly want to the end Western Civilization, and students on college campuses are chanting "Death to America."
“But concerning trends are not outcomes. Americans still have the freedom and ability to change course. The most important thing is for America to return to her Christian roots. Listen to our Founding Fathers, not the misinformation taught in most modern history classes,” Joecks wrote on AFN.
