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MS NOW guest and presidential historian Jon Meacham made the case Wednesday that the US as a “multiracial democracy” wasn’t founded until 1965 in the days before the Fourth of July.
“You know, we’re talking, exactly to your point, we’re talking about this as the 250th anniversary, which is, of the Second Continental Congress passing the Declaration of Independence, starting the full swing of the Revolutionary War, which ultimately led to the creation of the Constitution, the inauguration of George Washington, and the beginning of what we see as introspection, except we see the Recogniza of the people included in that,” Meacham said on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe.”
He continued, “And in that important sentence about ‘all men are created equal,’ men had a very special claim at that time. There’s a very good case to be made, I think, that we were actually founded in 1965, that’s when a multi-racial, multi-national democracy came into full existence, with the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the 6-year-old Bill of Rights, and the 6-year-old Voting Act. democracy. in many ways.”
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America will celebrate its 250th birthday on July 4 this Friday. (Stock)
However, Meacham, who once wrote speeches for former President Joe Biden, honored America’s Founding Fathers as proof that “imperfect people can drive us to the best results.”
“Let’s remember that we have to respect them by following them, we can’t just preach, we have to practice,” said Meacham.
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In the months leading up to the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, several current and former hosts of MS NOW have expressed dismay at the holiday’s history with slavery.
Presidential historian and speechwriter Jon Meacham said one could make an argument that America became a true “multiracial democracy” in 1965 rather than 1776. (Stock)
“They will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the country on July 4, but that’s not our celebration,” Reverend Al Sharpton said in April. “At that time we were slaves, and they celebrated the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1776. We didn’t become free until 1863. So I don’t know what everyone is preparing for the celebration. [for]. You know it seems crazy to me to have a birthday hat at your birthday party. That’s not my event.”
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Joy Reid, who once worked for the organization, noted last month that no black person she knows will celebrate Independence Day, adding that Juneteenth is the true beginning of America.
Former MSNBC host Joy Reid previously suggested that Juneteenth was America’s real Independence Day. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the First Amendment Committee)
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“Although the twelfth to me is the real meaning of the 4th of July, because we were not a democracy until we ended slavery,” said Reid. “And we weren’t a democracy until the people who lost the Civil War were finally forced to ratify and act on the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, which they weren’t forced to do until the 60s.”
