It is important to know about America's history after 250 years of its existence. I can't list all of the details of America's story as that would take an infinite amount of pages, but I can give a concise explanation of American history to show human beings the truth. Long ago, America existed, and the first humans who lived in America were the Native Americans. They are a people, related genetically to the Siberians, who traveled from Siberia to North America by the end of the last major Ice Age at ca. 15,000 - 30,000 years ago via the Bering Land Bridge (Beringia). Now, the Native American tribes had diverse cultures from the Powhatan, Nottoway, Cheyenne, Navaho, Shawnee, etc. They spread across two continents with advanced civilizations. There was the Olmec culture with advanced mathematics, the Maya with a calendar system, The Aztec, the Mound Culture of North America, the Pueblo, etc. These areas of America flourished with tons of people. Hawaii had Polynesian and Pacific Islander human beings too. As time went on, the Native Americans grew infrastructure on various lands, had differences, and worshipped in a multiple number of creeds. Over the millennia, persons of color always lived in the Americas. Then, the Europeans came into North America by ca. 1000 A.D. via the Vikings who came to LAnse aux Meadows (in Newfoundland, Canada). The Vikings had a short-lived encounter with Native Americans. Centuries later; more European explorers (including pirates) and imperialists came to America from the 1400s to the 1500s. Many of the Europeans had diverse motivations. Some wanted religious freedom. Others want thievery, genocide, and economic exploitation of innocent human life. These European imperialists and slave owners were the oppressors of my black ancestors. Many of the European imperialists savagery enslaved Africans and Native Americans.
The European imperialists stole tons of lands in the Americas, and they founded the Maafa for economic exploitation to benefit a few of the oligarchy. They did it for racist reasons as well. Africans and Native Americans heroically fought back against the imperialists. It is true that traitorous Native Americans and traitorous Africans were involved in the genocide of innocent human beings who were Native Americans and Africans. It is important to note that European racists planned and organized the Maafa. This crisis of democracy now in 2026 has been caused policies to from the one percent (in the financial monarchical oligarchy). America was filled with colonies, Native American tribes, and Africans being free and enslaved by 1700. Great Britain became the leading Empire after the French and Indian War. After that, the colonists were angered at the British control of lands and excessive laws directed to them. These laws were the Stamp Act, the Quartering Act, etc. Some American colonists wanted to establish independence, some wanted to stay within the British Empire (or they were Loyalists), and the rest were neutral. The American Revolutionary War started when the British and colonial forces fought in Massachusetts. The war was a near victory for the Redcoats, but America won by guerilla warfare, resiliency, and help from other nations (like Spain, France, the Dutch, etc.). The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. That date represented the start of the United States of America. America has the contradiction of the words of the Declaration of Independence mentioning that "all men are created equal," but black people were slaves plus other groups of people were denied basic human rights. Back in the 1700s, Native Americans, women, Latinos, and other minorities were being oppressed. The Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolutionary War in 1783.
George Washington was elected the First President of the United States. He was a general, and he wanted a strong federal government to handle national affairs. There were the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. The Federalists were right to desire a strong federal government, and the Anti-Federalists were right to want the Bill of Rights to act as a check to the powers of the federal government too. From 1789 to 1861, America experienced the antebellum period. This time saw the expansion of American lands (in many cases these lands were stolen and conquered by many Americans against the indigenous people). Many colonists started to migrate to the Midwest and the West. Slave revolts increased by the1700s and 1800s by Nat Turner, Gabriel Posser, etc. The Underground Railroad helped to free slaves from tyranny and bondage. Harriet Tubman (who was from the Eastern Shore of Maryland where many of my distant cousins live at) was part of the movement to free many slaves. In America by the 1800s, cities and towns grew with schools, churches, synagogues, mosques, factories, universities, sporting places, and other institutions. Presidents rose into power. Some were more progressive and others were more conservative. America became involved in new, controversial wars like the War of 1812 (against the British Empire) and the Mexican American War (that caused Texas to be part of the Union. Many leaders in Texas wanted slavery while Mexico banned slavery back then). Women promoted equality in the suffrage movement by the 19th century. Slavery was a major issue in 19th century America. Some states freed slaves, and other states refused to do so. The political, economic, and social tensions among the North and the South along with slavery caused the American Civil War. The U.S. Civil War started by the South illegally bombing Fort Sumter in 1861. Southern states seceded including my home state of Virginia. The Union won the battles of the war by having more people, more resources, and more factories across the nation. Heroes of every color in the Union Army helped to defeat the Confederate enemy. Black people played a key role in the Confederate defeat especially. President Abraham Lincoln, Union generals, soldiers, allies, and other people led the Union to have the victory. Harriet Tubman led a battle in South Carolina too. The Confederacy (whose own documents admitted that they seceded to promote slavery and promote the myth of white supremacy) lost the U.S. Civil War in 1865. The American Civil War was over. Reconstruction existed with black Americans having political office locally, statewide, and federally for the first time in American history. We saw the rise of the Klan and people fighting them. President Ulyssess S. Grant (who had imperfections) was right to support civil rights legislation. He was right to oppose the terrorism of the Klan. The Compromise of 1873 ended Reconstruction as we know it. Reconstruction was an experiment that increased self-determination and political power among the African American community. Reconstruction ended by both reactionary racist oligarchs of the South and the capitalist business class of the North coming to together to support the evil status quo of Jim Crow apartheid by 1873.
Jim Crow apartheid was formed in the 1800s and it exploded into the next level by the start of the 20th century. Jim Crow apartheid was plain terrorism filled with the lynching of black people, the rape of black people, and unjust discrimination against black Americans. It was a brutal system and groups formed like the NAACP (which grew from the Niagara Movement. Some of its origin founders were Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. DuBois), the National Association of Colored Women, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SNCC), the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee), etc. America saw the Progressive Movement of the early 20th century (not progressives of the 21st century) that sought housing reform, regulation of food including meat products, banning child labor, and making corporations accountable for their actions. Theodore Roosevelt helped to popularize the Progressive movement causes, and he was a liberal Republican on many issues (except on foreign policy issues). Back then, Republicans were heavily progressive ideologically, and Democrats were heavily conservative until the 1940s and the 1960s. Women fought for suffrage or voting rights being successful with the adoption of the 1920 19th Amendment given women the right to vote. WWI existed after competing European empires fought in Europe. At first, America was heavily isolationist, and then the Luistiana was attacked causing America to intervene in the war. The Americans were in the Allied Powers fighting the Central Powers (made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary, etc.). This war of WWI saw tanks, planes, and other weapons like nerve gas used being a modern type of war. WWI was international, and the Allied Forces had a victory with heroism displayed by soldiers and nurses of all colors, including black people. Woodrow Wilson was President during WWI and promoted a form of internationalism, but Wilson was a stone cold racist who opposed persons of color to have independence from colonial/imperialistic domination. The Treaty of Versailles ended WWI. Pan-Africanism grew after WWI. We saw the Roaring Twenties with cultural development, jazz, excess spending, new clothing, and sports development. It was the time of massive wealth expansion and the financial systems had lax regulations. When the economy suffered a massive contraction of wealth, the Great Recession existed. The Great Recession caused long lines for people to get food, the ending of companies, and a desperation for solutions. President Herbert Hoover wanted to create conservative solutions to complicated economic porblems, but most Americans wanted a bolder solution. Franklin Delano Roosevelt became President for four terms in part because of his bold economically progressive policies. President FDR passed great progressive legislation from Social Security to the regulation of finacnial instutitons. He worked in the Allied Powers to help defeat the wicked Axis Powers (with Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, and their allies). World War II started in 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. FDR went into the conflict by aiding the Allies with the Lend Lease program, and overtly after the 1941 cowardly attack on Pearl Harbor. FDR was not perfect as he refused to allow more Jewish people to come to America as refugees, he had a mixed civil rights record, and he supported the racist Japanese internment camp policies that harmed the lives of millions of Japanese human beings. World War II ended by 1945 after the fall of Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo's empires. The bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima by atomic weapons, with support of PResident Truman, to be was unjust and a crime against humanity in my opinion. The Allies victory was righteous and sacrosanct.
After World War II, Cold War Presidents gained power. The United States of America experienced the lowest economic inequality in possibly human history from 1945 to 1975. We saw the growth of the middle class, rights given to people, and the poverty rate cut in half. Yet, everything wasn't peaches and cream with lynchings, sexism, xenophobia, and harm done to many minorities. That era of the Cold War witness many social movements growing to expand human rights. The people who opposed this expansion included people like George Wallace (until he apologized late in his life), Jim Clark, Harry Byrd, James Eastland Theodore Bilbo, etc. The American Civil Rights Movement was strong filled with people like Ella Baker, Dr. King, John Lewis. Mary White Ovington, Medgar Evers, Harry T. and Hariette Moore, Joyce Landner, Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson, and other people who protested, organized institutions, been in grassroots programs for change, and some of them advocated nonviolence plus self-defense. Without thier sacrifice, we wouldn't be here today buying what we want, living in where we want, and writing what we want on many platforms. There were the Women's Rights movement reaching its Second Wave from the early 1960s to the early 1980s. There were the Poor People's Campaign, the Chicano Movement, the Native American Rights Movement, the elderly rights movement, the Disabled Rights Movement, the LGBTQIA+ movement, the environmental rights movement, and other social movements. From Truman to Nixon, the country changed massively. We saw the Vietnam War being a disaster in America and in Vietnam. President Lyndon Baines Johnson was desperate for a U.S. victory, but the war was a stalemate until America withdrew from Vietnam (causing a North Vietnamese victory by 1975 when Gerald Ford was President). The nation witnessed stagflation and economic malaise by the 1970s. Ronald Reagan was the leader of the conservative movement by the late 1970s and causing the Conservative Movement to reach into new power in the 1980s. Reagan was very controversial and won 2 terms as America back in the day was much more conservative than it is now in 2026. Activists fought back against Reaganism too. During the two terms of Reagan, there was an expansion of Wall Street power, growth of the deficits, and Reagan was out of office by 1989. Geroge W. Bush was a center right President who lost in part by the recession, and Bill Clinton having political charisma to promise change to America. Bill Clinton had two terms being a center-left President witnessing the expansion of the Internet, technological advancements, the end of the Cold War, the dot com boom, and a reduction of the crime rate. There has been massive economic expansion, but many poor people suffered with the cuts to welfare via the Welfare Reform Act. Then, George W. Bush was President by 2001. George W. Bush had two terms being a Reagan conservative. He was controversial and protested by his Iraq War advocacy, his support of the Patriot Act, and his promotion of many reactionary policies. George W. Bush did a good thing by investing in anti-AIDS research in Africa having bipartisan support. With the massive recession of 2008, George W. Bush was in a low position. He passed a banker bailout law, but the bailout didn't extend that much to homeowners or the American people collectively. President Barack Obama promoted hope and change for America. He was elected in 2008 causing Oprah Winfrey and Jesse Jackson to cry tears of joy. President Barack Obama had a legacy of both great accomplishments (like the Dodd-Frank Act, better relations with Cuba, the good parts of the Affordable Care Act, and the investments in HBCUs). Obama's biggest errors include his foreign policy being just as aggressive as the neo-cons with the Bush Jr. years. Donald Trump used the bigotry, racism, and xenophobia in some quarters of America to win the 2016 election. Trump started his campaign in 2015. Trump's first term saw Muslim bans, the racist attacks at Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, and the COVID-19 pandemic (that murdered over one million Americans and millions more worldwide). Trump's first term ended in 2021 when President Biden was inaugurated as President after the January 6th terrorist attack (which was done by MAGA terrorists). President Biden passed some of the most progressive legislation in American history benefiting black people, poor people, brown people, and people of every background. Later, President Biden had one term, and Trump had his 2nd term. Since 2025, people have experienced Trump doing even more egregious actions. In 2026, democracy is under threat hanging in the balance with an illegal Iran War, ICE being used domestically in airports and in our streets, detention centers, an expansion of voter suppression policies (with many states lowering voter times, limiting mail in voting, and other anti-voting policies), harm done to whitewash black museums, and an expansion of the executive branch (in violation of the separation of powers). Donald Trump's authoritarianism is nefarious, and people have every God-given right to peacefully dissent with Trumpism in 2026.
The Age of President Joe Biden's Presidency was a paradox in that he won the 2020 election as a mdoerate candidate in the midst of progressive furvor (among many Democratic voters), but many of his economic and domestica policies were massively progressive not moderate. Joe was born up North in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He got his political start in Delware where he was a Senator for decades. He ran for President multiple times and won it by 2020. Biden in 2020, defeated more progressive candiates during the Democratic primary (who are Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren). Joe Biden took his time and gathered more delegates as the political race proceeded by gaining support and giving speech plus his political organizing. Joe Biden went to South Carolina and won the primary, because Bernie Sanders is right on many economic issues, but he didn't come to gain more support among the African American leaders in South Carolina and Selma, Alabama. One of Bernie Sanders' great mistakes was not coming to Selma to commemeoriate the 55th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Joe Biden won the Democratic primary and debated Trump in highly charged debates. Those debates were filled with heated exchanges representing the massive political polarization in American society. Joe Biden won the 2020 election. After November 2020, Trump and his team tried their best in trying to sue to steal the election in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and in other places. Georgia voting for Biden was very historic. The Supreme Court prevented Trump from stealing the 2020 election via their court decision. Then, January 6th happened when MAGA terrorists invaded the U.S. Capitol illegally to assault police officers, yell racial slurs, damage property, steal Congressional items, threatened to hang then Vice President Mike Pence, wave Confederate and Neo-Nazi flags on Capitol grounds (for the first time in American history), and nearly assaulted Congressional leaders. The National Guard and other authorities stopped the terrorist mob by the afternoon. The National Guard remained for weeks in Washington, D.C. to protect Biden and the American people in D.C. President Joe Biden was inaugurated on January 20, 2021 when I was 37 years old. There were fireworks, celebrities celebrating Biden, celebrations, and a sense of release. President Joe Biden passed some of the most progressive legislation in U.S. history economically and socially. He signed economic bills that invested in our communities like: The American Rescue Plan, the expasnion of the Child Tax Credit in a historic level, summer nutrition benefits, investments in child care programs, and used the State Small Business Credit iniative to help invest in up to 100,000 small businesses over the next decade. Joe Biden had some foreign policy errors in Afghanistan and in other places. The country improved economically, and Biden grew to delay in his speeches. Ageism is a prejudice unfortunately that is common in America, so Biden was questioned of his intellectual capacity by 2024. By 2024, Biden decided to not run for re-election for the good of the country, and Kamala Harris won the Democratic nomination of 2024. Kamala Harris won a valiant campaign and set many records, but she lost because of many complex reasons (like sexism, racism, economic angst, misinterpretation of Kamala's views, and other reasons). The Age of Biden showed America having great improvements and new challenges. It was a short four year time that saw massive blessings and the backlash of Trumpism causing Trump to win in 2024. After 2024, we are still fighting for our democracy that our acnestors courageously fought for.
One of the most popular religions on Earth is Mormonism. It has been around for a very long time, and it's divided into different types like many creeds. It was founded by the Freemason Joseph Smith who lived a short life of controversy, spiritual deception, and being a deluded soul unfortunately. His family suffered many illnesses and emotional pain. Followers of Mormonism went to Utah and other places in America. The Freemason Brigham Young was a one innovator of Mormonism too. The Mormon religion has mystical and unique spiritual heresies like calling humans Gods with the chance of creating their own spiritual children in other planets and following the baptism of the dead ceremonies. To this day, Mormonism has grown to be one of the most powerful religions on Earth. Many famous people in Mormonism are Mitt Romney, the late Mia Love, Gladys Knight, Brandon Flowers, Donny and Marie Osmond, David Archuleta, and other human beings. The good news is that numerous individuals have left Mormonism to be born again. To be clear, dissent with Mormonism peacefully and with logical explanations is not bigotry. Bigotry is irrational, evil hatred of Mormonism because some people are Mormons, it is any form of discrimination of Mormons because they are Mormons. Bigotry is also dehumanization of Mormon people. I reject hatred, discrimination, and dehumanization of Mormon people. Mormons like all people have the right to work, live their own lives, and be free without oppression. Yet, I do believe in peaceful dissent with the doctrines or theological views of Mormonism. At the end of the day, we want the truth to be embraced by all people in the world.
Summer represents vacations, renewal of purpose, hot weather, and seeking a focus on truth plus justice. During the middle part of the year, it is only fitting to mention the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. For us (who are Americans), it has been long journey indeed. We have lived through wars, social movements, triumphs, and a pandemic that changed the world forevermore. America now is is in another croosrads where we have the evil forces of reaction and fascism vs. the forces of democracy. The question is whether we shall see America thrive with justice, equality, and democracy or end with a permnant authortarian state. Time will tell. Only God knows the complete future 100 percent. Therefore, it is our right and responsibility to keep the faith and to do what is right for a sincere motivation.
Recently, Nick Cannon and Amber Rose agreed with each other to say that the Democratic Party is the party of the Klan and Democrats don't care about black people. Amber Rose and Nick Cannon said the lie that Trump is an admirable person? The truth is obvious. Racism is not limited by party. There are racists who are Republicans and Democrats spanning centuries. Yet, the system of racism existed long before both parties existed. Trump is not an admirable person by him mocking people with disabilities, for mocking soliders by calling them "suckers and losers," calling Congressional leader Mitch McConnel's wife a racist slur, calling Somalis "garbage," saying perverted comments about his own daughter, and going about to call black progressives "low IQ." These are the actions of a racist not a hero. Amber Rose and Nick Cannon omit historical truths. The truth is that the Democratic Party didn't create the Klan. The Klan was created in Tennessee by six Confederate veterans on December 24, 1865. The Klan raped, assaulted, and murdered innocent black people and other human beings too. Back in the 19th century, many Democratic members supported the Klan, and many Republicans were progressive (like the Radical Republicans of the Reconstruction era) as that is why back then black Americans supported the Republicans. That changed by the 20th century. By the days of the New Deal and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, many Democrats supported civil rights and racial justice while many Republicans supported the Southern Strategy, voter suppression laws, austerity, and other evils. Therefore, no one party has a monopoly of virtue, but by the 21st century, the GOP is dominated by the racist, sexist, and xenophobic agenda of Trumpism, and the Democratic Party has tons of members opposed to that agenda. Trump has tried to get rid of black museum programs, wants mail in voting to be banned, supports an unjust Iranian war, and pardoned January 6th terrorists, but Amber Rose and Nick Cannon have the nerve to glorify Trump (and the MAGA movement). So, parties can change ideology over time. The Democratic Party of 2026 is not equivalent to the 19th century Democratic Party. The Republican Party of 2026 that embraces Trump is not the same Republican Party of the 19th century. This is not shocking as Amber Rose is a sellout (who recently said that white people should be allowed to say the n word), and Nick Cannon is intimidated by the establishment.
By Timothy
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