What It Means to Be Patriotic

This Independence Day, as we gather around the grill and watch fireworks with our friends and families, we wanted to revisit a conversation Audie had with Baratunde Thurston, writer at Puck News and host of the PBS show America Outdoors.
What does it mean to love this country despite its divisions? How can we come together and hold space for the complexity of the American story? And what would those conversations sound like if we did?
Baratunde Thurston (www.baratunde.com/) is a writer, host and executive producer of the PBS television series America Outdoors (www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/b...) , creator and host of How To Citizen (www.howtocitizen.com/) , and a founding partner of the new media startup Puck. His comedic memoir, How To Be Black (www.baratunde.com/howtobeblack) , is a New York Times best-seller.
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[@markzuckergecko621]

CNN talking about patriotism is like Bill Cosby talking about chivalry.

[@992turbos]

Why do you keep clicking on every video CNN uploads if you don’t trust it?

[@NHLblkgurl]

Cutting people off during a live feed when they start quoting CNN hosts?

[@iloveTrump45]

*Calling CNN patriotic is like calling Fauci a real doctor*

[@IHATEDIAPERDON]

Being patriotic is being a reeeeeeee..

[@Gigi-zy1kx]

i AM the science

[@992turbos]

Why do you watch so much CNN if you dislike their point of view?

[@IHATEDIAPERDON]

@@iloveTrump45 what is with your having to be patriotic? I thought you people were religious? If you were you would know patriotism is against the word of God.

[@Gigi-zy1kx]

@@992turbos I guess treating opinion as editorial most the time is something I tend to disagree with. Otherwise it's just good old biased bought and paid for reporting of information. And that is beautiful

[@abvevo6406]

Being that it's CNN everything, she probably says believe the opposite. 😂

[@fkgoogle666]

Not being democrat is patriotic

[@IHATEDIAPERDON]

Patriots are losers

[@IHATEDIAPERDON]

Patriots smell bad.

[@IHATEDIAPERDON]

Patriots are silly Gross people who worship a flag

[@992turbos]

Then stop clicking on every CNN video you liar

[@NPClownumber81googolplex]

Don't you people hate America?

[@992turbos]

You clicked on a CNN video and get mad about it?

[@PromethiumNo61]

Patriotism means protecting one's living space... from both the internal enemy and the external enemy. However, patriotism does not mean expansion. Patriotism does not mean threatening the living space of others.

[@GotoHere]

Going to a president Trump rally is patriotic. Make America Great Again.

[@IHATEDIAPERDON]

No. Going to a diaper ham face don rally is lame.

[@electriczzzzz]

Good ole COMMIE NEWS NETWORK

[@992turbos]

That you’re apparently watching

[@electriczzzzz]

@@992turbos oh no clicked to comment then went back to benny Johnson

[@BenSmith-mg5jv]

Being a PATRIOT is SIMPLE. It Doesn't involve NOT criticizing the 🇺🇲, it DOESN'T mean erasing, avoiding, altering as to make, " less shameful, " or minimizing 🇺🇲 history, present or future in school's or conversation. Being a PATRIOT is INDISPUTABLY DEFINED BY ONE STATEMENT! VERY SIMPLY ADHERING TO, SUPPORTING, PROTECTING and DEFENDING the 🇺🇸📜. No MORE, no LESS! We'd be in a MUCH better place if THAT was adopted by those who CLAIM all kinds of things as, " patriotic. "

[@buddymartin7923]

What it means to be patriotic is to know the freedoms we've been handed by better men are worth more than the lives of anyone who wants to take them.

[@Gigi-zy1kx]

Thank you for your service comrades.

[@joshowen9054]

Lincoln the greatest patriot and also the father of the civl war

[@B82828]

Lol

[@klaudio2803]

This is so sad. Is this what they call DEI blunder? No disrespect sis, but have some shame

[@thepatriarchy8443]

Ah yes: being lectured on patriotism from the side of the aisle that says, "no Trump, no Wall, no U.S.A. at all." Seems a tad ironic.

[@IHATEDIAPERDON]

No drumpf.. life is great

[@992turbos]

So why are you watching CNN videos if you hate CNN?

[@IHATEDIAPERDON]

@@992turbos they like to watch things they hate. It makes them more hateful.