July 5th--return to Manifest Destiny? or perhaps instead a return to the Ideal of our constitution

“This movement is openly attacking the legacies of every person on Mount Rushmore,” Trump said. He lamented “cancel culture” and charged that some on the political left hope to “defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children.” He said Americans should speak proudly of their heritage and shouldn’t have to apologize for its history.
Proud words.  Sounds like the "Proud Boys".
These words were said at Mount Rushmore by the sitting POTUS before a maskless crowd of 7500 people with no room for social distancing.  The chairs were zip-tied together to prevent moving them apart, during a pandemic that has already killed over 130,000 people.  

The Lakota people were protesting the desecration of their sacred land, stolen from them, then used to place the faces of the leaders of the country that pushed them out of the treatied land with a final battle at Wounded Knee in 1890.  

"Although Mount Rushmore was constructed with the intention of symbolizing "the triumph of modern society and democracy", for the original land occupants, the Lakota Sioux, the monument embodies a story of "struggle and desecration". The U.S. Government promised the Sioux territory, including the perpetuity of the Black Hills in the Treaty of 1868. That lasted only until the discovery of gold on the land and soon after white settlers migrated to the area in the 1870s."  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore 

Manifest Destiny was the popular belief that any land coveted by Euro-Americans was, by providence, rightfully theirs for the taking.  It was an absolution for stealing land and killing the people and cultures that had inhabited it before they wanted it.  It was "GOD'S PLAN".

Apparently, God likes white people more.  God Plays favorites.  God is all about making white people rich and powerful at the expense of brown and black people.

How big of hypocrite do you have to be to believe that.  Sounds a lot like a televangelist requesting the last dime of poor people for seed faith---The mustard seed is all about a cash return.

So, who are our heroes that the protestors are defaming and what values are they erasing?

Right now, the protests are against the murder of unarmed, uncharged, and unjudged black and brown people by the very people our taxes are paying to protect us all.  During this, the statues of confederate generals have come under attack.  Statues placed in places that never saw that general and never fought for the confederacy.  Places that were not even states before 1865 have statues commemorating these men because 50 years after the war was lost by the confederacy, the Daughters of the Confederacy, in an effort to maintain a racial hierarchy all over the country, gathered money and paid to place these statues as a reminder.  It was just another foot on the head of our citizens with African ancestry.  

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/675958-we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-that-all-men#:~:text=Quote%20by%20Thomas%20Jefferson%3A%20%E2%80%9CWe%20hold%20these%20truths,are%20Life%2C%20Liberty%2C%20and%20the%20pursuit%20of%20Happiness.

All men, and while we have no equal rights for women in the constitution, I take the editorial we, as in, humans, all humans.

No Where Does It say "white men", or "except brown people", or "if their ancestors came from Europe"

And all the government's powers are derived from the consent of the governed.

The American people celebrated their Independence from a a tyrant in 1776.  The American people includes a rainbow of people, a multiverse of cultures, a plethora of beliefs.

What we all share is a vision of a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, not just for the rich, not just for the white, not just for the male or the protestant.

WE ARE ALL AMERICAN.