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And none of you were here on July 4th, 1776, none of you fought the British for your freedom either. And since most of you are from ancestors who came here after this happened, your ancestors did not fight to win your freedom from Britain either.
So without further ado, one of the greatest speeches in American history.
What To The Slave Is The 4th Of July?"
FREDERICK DOUGLASS SPEECH, 1852
Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?
For the rest of the speech:
http://www.freemaninstitute.com/douglass.htm
You were never a slave...
That play is old. It doesn't work.
So you were a slave owned by the southern white society?
Also what are you doing to stop modern day slavery from sex trafficking to force labor?
Like I said that is old, it won't work, and it only displays your childishness..
No, it shows that you use the past to justify your bigoted hatred. You never lived a life of a slave nor lived under Jim Crow laws or told your place was at the back of the bus.
If you are mistreated it is because you are a race baiting bigot.
The only people I feel sorrow for are Native Americans but for you and everyone else that are not Native American can crawl on your cross and die as false martyrs ..
Well I did live under Jim Crow. And I have sat in places where I was not served. I have sat in places where I was the last served after every white person got served even those who came in after me. I have been stopped about 100 ties for doing nothing by police.. I have been denied jobs and promotions because of my ace. I am not a bigot, but that's all you got to say when you can't really can't' out debate me and when you support racism yourself..
That you were not a slave shit just don't flush. It doesn't end the fact that slavery existed. Jim Crow existed. American apartheid was nation wide. It existed. The damage created by all that still ligers today in physical ways when you look at the blight in black communities in our cities that have never been fixed because of racist white city councils. So then you are just another amateur dumb ass white dude arguing for the sake of arguing and you enter a gunfight with a plastic knife thinking you can hurl insults and that's going to work.