Brittney Griner Should Take These U.S. Independence Day Haters on Tour of Russia
Timing is always everything. So what better time could there be to bash America than the holiday intended to celebrate the nation, right? While citizens participate in and/or watch Independence Day parades; enjoy fireworks; and adorn themselves from head to toe in red, white, and blue, others lambast the country that ironically, protects their right to do so. Enter singer Jill Scott, Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), ice cream company Ben & Berry’s, and WNBA player Natasha Cloud—stage LEFT, of course. I call on another WNBA player, Brittney Griner, to take all of them on a tour—of Russia. After being locked up there, she could show them where she spent ten months there and how much better it is to be in America.
Scott clearly needs the tour. On the Fourth of July weekend, she decided to rewrite America’s national anthem, singing her rendition at the 2023 Essence Festival. Here are her lyrics, followed by her rendition:
Oh, say can you see, by the blood in the streets. This place doesn’t smile on you, colored child—whose blood built this land with sweat and their hands. But we’ll die in this place and your memory erased. Oh, say, does this truth hold any weight. This is not the land of the free, but the home of the slaves.
Essence magazine’s response was equally egregious. “Everyone please rise for the only National Anthem we will be recognizing from this day forward,” the publication tweeted and then thanked Scott for her assault on the song that will not, in fact, be replaced by the nonsense version she wrote—no doubt from a lush home she was able to purchase due to the opportunities this country afforded her.
While some people as clueless and ungrateful as Scott praised her song, many were disgusted. Here is a sampling of tweets (some partial):
I could include a plethora of other responses, but, well, some of them really let the language fly, and you get the idea already anyway.
Not to be outdone in bashing America, though, is someone who masquerades as a representative of Americans, Democrat Rep. Cori Bush.
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Just in time to celebrate the nation’s independence, here’s her tweet:
Reparations? Really? Surely, you’re not holding out for that, Ms. Bush.
What should we expect from someone whose Twitter cover photo is still of Black Lives Matter folks wearing coronavirus masks, mind you? BLM—the same Marxist, anti-nuclear family, millions of dollars-“syphoning” group that was at the root of a bunch of protests, looting, and flag-waving in the name of black lives mattering. This elected official—whose Twitter profile describes her as “St. Louis Congresswoman. Nurse, activist, organizer, mom, & pastor. Leading with love, fighting for regular people. #StLouisStrong (she/her)”—proudly displays the photo on her page. I could say much about that self-analysis, but I’ll just let it sit there.
Just when you thought it was safe to enjoy ice cream after your Fourth of July hot dogs and hamburgers—or salmon, summer squash, and lentils, as I had—Ben & Jerry’s informs us that ice cream is about dumping on America. Here’s the not-so-sweet tweet:
With some businesses getting hit in the pocketbook because of their woke agenda, you’d think other businesses would catch the hint. Nope! It has to be the epitome of hubris to think it’ll be everyone paying the price minus you.
Next, we have WNBA player Natasha Cloud. She was ahead of the game and spewed her ridiculousness the Friday before the holiday. Apparently outraged by the Supreme Court’s ruling that a website designer cannot be forced to create messages in support of same-sex marriages in violation of her faith, which is protected by the First Amendment, she took to Twitter to state the following:
When criticism came, Cloud reportedly refused to back down, calling America a “f*cking joke.” She went on to berate the country some more, as Breitbart News reported, and one has to wonder why she’s still here making millions of dollars when she could/should be somewhere else.