"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass

[MarcATL]

Many Leftist have forgotten about the Emancipation of 1862 and which Country's Founders put in a Constitution that could be amended to give the Slaves Freedom.

Many of these Leftist are so blinded by their own Hatred and Intolerance they forget their own God given Blessings.

The only hatred and intolerance I see on the left is for bigotry, racism and white supremacy. They hate and cannot tolerate those things. How do you feel about those things?

 

[MarcATL]

Apparently you haven't heard but the slaves were freed by white people who died in the effort and now their descendants want to tear down statues of Lincoln because because they fin it humiliating that they were freed by a white man.

Is that why those white people brandished traitorous Confederate flags and symbols every time in this country's history that black progress was being made?

 

[MarcATL]

And yet you still vote for the Party of Slavery.

Why not respond to the OP?

 

[WEATHER53]

George Wallace and the typical 50-150 years ago libbie shit
They have No Future because they are desperately trying to redo or eliminate history.

 

[MarcATL]

This is a keeper!

 

[MarcATL]

Why the hell does anybody in 2020, want to read about what was going on in 1852 ? This is what PBS liberals do. They show old civil rights footage from the 1950s & 60s, designed to get blacks all roused up (about things that don't affect THEM)

They also show historical things going back to the 19th century, trying to get us all feeling guilty about stuff from before our grandparents were born.

What they DON'T SHOW is the 16,000 well-paid employees in the Tampa VA hospital, 65% of whom are BLACK, 30% are other non-white races (many from India), 5% white females, and ZERO% white males.

You will not hear the words Affirmative Action mentioned. You will not see stories about the ruined lives of white male victims of Affirmative Action, racist discrimination, or anything to combat the "woeful ignorance" of this 56 year history/disgrace.
(1964-2020).

Say bub, what year were you born?

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Is the title now given to a speech by Frederick Douglass delivered on July 5, 1852, in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, addressing the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society.[2] The speech is perhaps the most widely known of all of Frederick Douglass' writings save his autobiographies.

Considering the woeful ignorance Americans have of it's own history and the current climate, now is the perfect time for all to consume what things were actually like.

His descendants have recorded themselves giving this great speech that I believe every American should read at least once or three times in their lives...

Descendants of Frederick Douglass read his Fourth of July speech on slavery amid nationwide protests

A group of young descendants of Frederick Douglass gathered to read the abolitionist author’s famed speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

thehill.com

Or you can watch another set of African Americans give the speech on Roland Martin's digital show...



Or, you can just take the time and read it yourself...

“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”

teachingamericanhistory.org

I listened to Martin group's reading last night and was just left speechless.

How did you react to any of these?

Statue of Frederick Douglass Torn Down in Rochester

A statue of abolitionist legend Frederick Douglass was torn down overnight over the Fourth of July holiday in Rochester, New York.

www.breitbart.com

In recent years, Black Lives Matter activists have been fond of quoting a speech in which Douglass called the Fourth of July a “sham” because of slavery. However, in the remainder of the speech, Douglass praises America’s founding and its principles.

No motive has yet been reported in the removal of the statue. Rochester Police were not available for comment.

50 bucks it was a dumb democrat slave

 

[John T. Ford]

The only hatred and intolerance I see on the left is for bigotry, racism and white supremacy. They hate and cannot tolerate those things. How do you feel about those things?

That's because you do not live in reality.

Everyone here understands that you firmly believe your own delusions ..... but, that does not change the fact that they are still delusions.

 

[whitehall]

1852? Why can't the radical element in the Black population understand that slavery ended over 150 years ago? Ordinary White people and the Police ain't your enemy. Your problem is with the democrat party that has treated Blacks like plantation members and victims for the last hundred years. Democrats need a victim orientated base and they depend on anger and unrest for votes.

 

[MarcATL]

You asked for it. Now for a history lesson (at your expense). It's about time someone asked that question point blank. I've been ready for it.

Party Realignment And The New Deal
And this is just the start.







The Twentieth-Century Reversal: How Did theRepublican States Switch to theDemocrats and Vice Versa?
The familiar U.S. electoral map—with the Democrats win-ning in the northeast, upper midwest, and west coast, and the Re-publicans dominating in the south and center of the country—isrecent. In the past few elections, rich states have gone for theDemocrats and poor states have voted Republican, but 30 yearsago there was no such pattern, and a 100 years ago things lookedcompletely different.Figure 1shows the maps showing Demo-cratic and Republican states in 1896 and in 2000.Almost without exception, the states which went Republican(colored red) in 1896 supported Democrat Al Gore in 2000,while nearly all the Democratic (blue) states in 1896 movedin the other direction.Figure 2shows more details with ascatterplot.We are so used to the idea of cosmopolitan liberal Democratsand rural conservative Republicans that the 1896 pattern can come as a shock. What happened?

And it's still not that simple. But the fact it happened shouldn't be denied.

Good stuff!

 

[MarcATL]

That's because you do not live in reality.

Everyone here understands that you firmly believe your own delusions ..... but, that does not change the fact that they are still delusions.

How do you feel about white supremacy? Intolerable or no?

 

[theHawk]

And yet you still vote for the Party of Slavery.

Why not respond to the OP?

What is there to address? The first step was separation from Britain. The second was abolishing slavery.

Nothing in the Declaration of Independence and later the Constitution said that blacks weren’t eligible for those rights. Democrats merely denied those rights for decades. There was no need for Civil Rights Acts and other such laws on a federal level if Democrats had just followed the law of the Constitution in the first place.

Idiots like you keep trying to blame “America” for all the bad shit that happened to blacks, and you refuse to blame the only people responsible, Democrats. Democrats fought to keep slavery, they were the Confederacy, they passed segregation laws and Jim Crow laws, and used the KKK as their domestic terrorist wing. Yet you want to blame modern day Republicans, all based on the fable that everyone “switched parties” at some indeterminate point.

Nope, you are responsible for the shitty situation blacks are still in, because you vote Democrat. Democrats have run every major city for the last 40 years if not a lot longer. They keep the crime high, the families broken, and kids uneducated, the men in jail. And yet you keep voting for them.

So, complaining about our nation’s independence celebration isn’t going to change anything for you. Voting for the same failed policies isn’t going to change anything for you.

You’d think that for someone who likes to use the likeness of Malcolm X, you’d listen to what he had to say about the White Liberals pretending to be your friend. And that you should pick yourselves up instead of relying on a white savior to give you a handout.

 

[MarcATL]

1852? Why can't the radical element in the Black population understand that slavery ended over 150 years ago? Ordinary White people and the Police ain't your enemy. Your problem is with the democrat party that has treated Blacks like plantation members and victims for the last hundred years. Democrats need a victim orientated base and they depend on anger and unrest for votes.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

 

[WEATHER53]

1852? Why can't the radical element in the Black population understand that slavery ended over 150 years ago? Ordinary White people and the Police ain't your enemy. Your problem is with the democrat party that has treated Blacks like plantation members and victims for the last hundred years. Democrats need a victim orientated base and they depend on anger and unrest for votes.

They need it as a crutch for their demise instead of correcting rampant personal irresponsibility.
Douglas was over 50 years Before the car was invented but stuff from that time is causing their current woes.

 

[MarcATL]

What is there to address? The first step was separation from Britain. The second was abolishing slavery.

Nothing in the Declaration of Independence and later the Constitution said that blacks weren’t eligible for those rights. Democrats merely denied those rights for decades. There was no need for Civil Rights Acts and other such laws on a federal level if Democrats had just followed the law of the Constitution in the first place.

Idiots like you keep trying to blame “America” for all the bad shit that happened to blacks, and you refuse to blame the only people responsible, Democrats. Democrats fought to keep slavery, they were the Confederacy, they passed segregation laws and Jim Crow laws, and used the KKK as their domestic terrorist wing. Yet you want to blame modern day Republicans, all based on the fable that everyone “switched parties” at some indeterminate point.

Nope, you are responsible for the shitty situation blacks are still in, because you vote Democrat. Democrats have run every major city for the last 40 years if not a lot longer. They keep the crime high, the families broken, and kids uneducated, the men in jail. And yet you keep voting for them.

So, complaining about our nation’s independence celebration isn’t going to change anything for you. Voting for the same failed policies isn’t going to change anything for you.

You’d think that for someone who likes to use the likeness of Malcolm X, you’d listen to what he had to say about the White Liberals pretending to be your friend. And that you should pick yourselves up instead of relying on a white savior to give you a handout.

Say, what year did the Democratic Party come into existence?

 

[theHawk]

That's because you do not live in reality.

Everyone here understands that you firmly believe your own delusions ..... but, that does not change the fact that they are still delusions.

How do you feel about white supremacy? Intolerable or no?

How do YOU feel about it? If White European culture isn’t the best in the world, then why choose to stay here? Why have YOU not moved back to Africa, or to Jamaica, or the Dominican Republic?

I mean, you speak a white man’s language, wear our style of clothes, haven’t you asked yourself why? Why don’t you move to Africa?

 

[MarcATL]

Oh. You mean that guy whose statue was attacked by BLM? Him?

Link?

 

[MarcATL]

Are there any slaves today?

Are there any "founding fathers" today?

 

[theHawk]

What is there to address? The first step was separation from Britain. The second was abolishing slavery.

Nothing in the Declaration of Independence and later the Constitution said that blacks weren’t eligible for those rights. Democrats merely denied those rights for decades. There was no need for Civil Rights Acts and other such laws on a federal level if Democrats had just followed the law of the Constitution in the first place.

Idiots like you keep trying to blame “America” for all the bad shit that happened to blacks, and you refuse to blame the only people responsible, Democrats. Democrats fought to keep slavery, they were the Confederacy, they passed segregation laws and Jim Crow laws, and used the KKK as their domestic terrorist wing. Yet you want to blame modern day Republicans, all based on the fable that everyone “switched parties” at some indeterminate point.

Nope, you are responsible for the shitty situation blacks are still in, because you vote Democrat. Democrats have run every major city for the last 40 years if not a lot longer. They keep the crime high, the families broken, and kids uneducated, the men in jail. And yet you keep voting for them.

So, complaining about our nation’s independence celebration isn’t going to change anything for you. Voting for the same failed policies isn’t going to change anything for you.

You’d think that for someone who likes to use the likeness of Malcolm X, you’d listen to what he had to say about the White Liberals pretending to be your friend. And that you should pick yourselves up instead of relying on a white savior to give you a handout.

Say, what year did the Democratic Party come into existence?

The first incarnation was with the first Congress, called the “Democratic-Republicans”, then broke off to Democratic Party in 1828.

 

[John T. Ford]

How do you feel about white supremacy? Intolerable or no?

I don't know any White Supremacist.

I am not affected by your imaginary White Supremacy.

Therefore I never think about it.

It's really that simple.

You are the one who is obsessed with these delusions about race.

Normal thinking folks .... not so much.