At 250 yrs old, the U.S. still struggles with systematic racism, as Pres. Trump re-dedicates nation to God!

“Some evils are so profound that they eclipse whatever else a person achieved“…US Bishop Talbert Swan

By James Kokulo Fasuekoi|Editor-Publisher in Monrovia, Liberia

The U.S., which is the world’s main superpower, turns 250 years old today, July 4, 2026. The nation gained her independence from Great Britain 250 years ago today, on July 4, 1776, and per its tradition, this milestone anniversary is being heavily celebrated in small and big cities across America, amid fireworks.

Like the West African nation of Liberia, where U.S. repatriated ex-slaves resettled, the United States is widely considered by many as a Christian nation, largely because, Christianity, according to research, was the main religion of America’s early European settlers.

The country’s greatness however does not only rest with its military advances or war victories, but that its greatness stands out because the U.S. remains the only nation on planet earth that gives-out-the most humanitarian aids like medicines, food and money in time of natural or man-made disasters.

Yet, beneath those stories of US’s triumph is a horrific chapter concerning her own roles played alongside nations like Portugal and Great Britain in the enslavement of millions of people of Africans descent during the Atlantic Slave Trade, centuries ago. 

According to Encyclopedia Virginia, the transatlantic slave trade ran between 1517-1867, roughly some 350 or more years, during which Europeans kidnapped African men, women and children and had them ferried across the ocean and sold as slaves to “the Americas” where they worked for centuries without pay to build the new nation.

An estimated “12.5 million Africans,” the research shows, “began the Middle Passage across the Atlantic, enduring cruel treatment, disease, and paralyzing fear aboard slave ships.” 

A chunk of this number landed in the U.S., with slave ships releasing their human cargo along the South Carolina-Georgia coasts. Caves used as holding post for “captives” enslaved Africans, are on display today, in downtown Savannah, Georgia, along River Street. 

The slave trade, perhaps, the worst tragedy in human’s history, continues to haunt the U.S. and other nations that participated and benefited from the trade such as Portugal and Great Britain, and with more African and Caribbean nations affected by this scourge now joining Ghana to seek reparation from old colonial powers. 

In the U.S., while slavery itself has disappeared physically-amid great efforts by the nation to create a country of fair justice and equal opportunity for all-irrespective of creed, sex, color, or national origin, many still think the system which long subjugated People of Color, remains very active today.

At the same time, during the last decade, much effort has been made by certain U.S. leaders, particularly U.S. President Donald Trump, to keep the subjects of Slavery and Black History from being taught in American schools against the wishes of Blacks and advocacy groups. One such moment came June 2026 after Mr. Trump ordered a Philadelphia museum to remove slave monuments in parks around the city, claiming, content “inappropriately disparages Americans past or living.”

Meanwhile, Mr. Trump lately celebrated the installation of the statue of Ceasar Rodney, a known slave owner, “near the White House, encouraging Americans to go and see it” says, the July 4th edition of The Independent. The referenced monument became controversial in 2020 and was taken down at the height of George Floyd’s Black Lives Matter protests. 

President Trump, a non-denominational Christian, has been hailed by US evangelicals for once more bringing back the Holy Bible to the White House after the Obama-Biden eras, both democrats who widely favored abortion and the LGTBQ Community. 

In addition, most Pro-Life immigrant Africans who view marriage from biblical standpoint have begun showing likeness for Pres. Trump and his Republican Party due to their anti-abortion stance and support for the nation of Israel.  

President Trump is also greatly admired by the Christian community at home for fulfilling one of his key campaigns promises by opening the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem in May of 2018, a move that signaled US’s acknowledgement of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, in total defiance of the wishes of Palestine, and much of the Arab world.

The issue with the U.S. Embassy’s location in Israel, for decades had been tied to the unresolved Israeli-Palestinian peace process thus leaving past US presidents in total predicament until Trump came in.

President Trump, clearly a huge supporter of American White Supremacist ideology, appears to be the only man in decades, occupying the U.S. White House who’s opened about his Christian faith and has often invited pastors and leaders there to pray for America and seek God’s divine guidance.

In the months preceding America’s 250th Anniversary, for instance, he again did something special no U.S. president has done in recent decades: he spearheaded a Christian movement and re-dedicated the country-a nation far removed from Almighty God-back to the LORD. This marked a significant turning point in U.S. history.

But for many people of African descend rededicating America alone isn’t enough. Rather, they believe, such renewal should come with America acknowledging its hideous but grievous pasts, to be followed by a moral compass (a change) in ways that allow the society to do business differently, for as U.S. Bishop Talbert Swan sees it, “Some evils are so profound that they eclipse whatever else a person achieved.”

“We’re not talking about people who made ordinary moral mistakes. We’re talking about people who trafficked in human beings. People who claimed ownership over Black bodies. People who bought and sold children, separated families, raped Black women, brutalized Black men, and built wealth and a nation on the backs of enslaved Africans,” Bishop Swan wrote Wednesday, in a social media post, in direct response to President Obama’s observation of U.S. President George Washington’s legacy.

In America’s ongoing race and slavery battle, President Obama, somewhere, in a speech is quoted as having said: “It’s possible for me to be an admirer of George Washington and acknowledge he was a slaveholder. That does not negate his greatness.”

Meanwhile, as America was getting ready to celebrate this July 4th Anniversary, US mainstream media reported hundreds of fearful-looking masked men from another White Supremacist group called “Patriot Front,” openly marching through Washington D.C., the U.S. capital, all under President Donald Trump’s watch!

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Editor’s note: James Fasuekoi is an award-winning journalist, author, documentary writer and a news photographer. He previously covered brutal wars and upheavals in West Africa for The Associated Press. He became a Bush Foundation Scholar twice in 2017; subpoenaed twice by the United States to testify in two major international Liberian War crimes trials: “United States of America vs. Mohammed Jabateh” (2017), & “United States of America vs. Thomas J. Woewiyu” (2018), held in Philadelphia. Read profile @ https://globalekklesia.com/profile/ 

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