{"id":44594,"date":"2026-07-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=44594"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:57:45","slug":"yourvoice-students-and-staff-share-thoughts-on-america250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2026\/07\/02\/yourvoice-students-and-staff-share-thoughts-on-america250\/","title":{"rendered":"YourVoice: Students and staff share thoughts on America250"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Members of the Sinclair College community had differing opinions regarding how the U.S. should celebrate its 250th birthday in 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business management, marketing and entrepreneurship administrator Sophie Tokar believes America\u2019s 250th birthday should be celebrated because she loves her country.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sophie Tokar, a Sinclair administrator.<\/strong> LUC NSABINDORA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m a very patriotic person,\u201d Tokar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tokar said she loves seeing local businesses display red, white and blue decorations to celebrate America\u2019s birthday.\u00a0She plans on watching fireworks with her family at their lake house to celebrate.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tokar said she fears for the future of the country due to its current political and social environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s just a lot of division and kind of anger all through the country right now,\u201d Tokar said. She hopes Americans can come together as a country and be kinder to one another in the next 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Eamon Harris, a computer science student at Sinclair. <\/strong>LUC NSABINDORA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Computer science student Eamon Harris also said America\u2019s birthday should be celebrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a long time for our freedom,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris does not have any specific plans to celebrate but said he believes freedom is America\u2019s biggest strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a lot of things that we can do,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris hopes that in the future it will be easier for immigrants to come into the country legally.\u00a0He said future generations should not take their freedoms for granted.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nick Kersey, a senior grants accountant. <\/strong>LUC NSABINDORA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Nick Kersey, a senior grants accountant at Sinclair, was unaware that America would be turning 250 next year but said it was still something to celebrate because the country is young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a lot of things that are cracking,\u201d Kersey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Kersey, America needs to work on making its government more transparent and stop political parties from being so divided.\u00a0He had some words of advice for future generations as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe next generation needs to not be so reactive,\u201d Kersey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though each interviewee had different things to say, they all agreed that America reaching the age of 250 was significant.\u00a0Some believed that America had come far as a country, while others were worried about how America was being ran.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Luc Nsabindora, reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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