K&R

Like many Sages, Douglas pointed to things that were indeed speak to everyone:

. To say now that America was right, and England wrong, is exceedingly easy. Everybody can say it; the dastard, not less than the noble brave, can flippantly discant on the tyranny of England towards the American Colonies. It is fashionable to do so; but there was a time when to pronounce against England, and in favor of the cause of the colonies, tried men’s souls. They who did so were accounted in their day, plotters of mischief, agitators and rebels, dangerous men.

The reason why I bring this up is that in England, whose children adapted racism against brown and black, there was just an action that oh yes, did reflect the continued scorn many English have for Brown and Black. Yes, let the far left speak about how Brexit was some strike against Tyranny, but we know that what got the numbers into the voting booth was the hatred of brown and black, the feeling that they were somehow stealing the future from Old White Men. It is sad to think that after 1776 at Yorktown, after 1916 in Dublin, after 1947 in India, many in England still think the world revolves around THEM, and the Brown and Black are just there to be used.

How does this pertain to us, the American modern brown and black, well, it goes to Douglas speech We are a YOUNG nation, still capable of unlearning England's bad habits, racism among them. Douglas speaks of us as an adolescent, right now, this country is at the point where it is developing the bad tendencies that always run in our family and picking up the bad habits of Europe, the political equivalent of smoking Mother Europe's same brand of cigarettes (which of course are farmed by brown and black slave labor) and drinking the same nasty, bitter beer Dad did. But we, unlike England, can say "allright, I know we could become this type of nation, but we do not want to be, if for no other reason than when we are older, we do not want to be as sick as our parents." The purpose of rebelling against racism and all the other isms we inherited is because we know that we do not want to become just another barely functioning addict of a nation. Let us reject the path of other nations, and say "we will be the people we should be" and if that brings down every july 4th shiny symbol, so be it.

Sorry England, for all our nation's faults, I like Douglas, am glad we are not part of you. Yes you got rid of slavery first, but who the hell brought it here, and who the hell profited off Southern Cotton? You had a chance to show that you were grown up, you failed, and it is NO accident that Trump, America's great reinforcer of bad cultural habits, was the first to cheer you on as you did. This is the same bastard who cheers when his followers beat up black people, that should warn you.

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This Frederick Douglass speech is one of the best in history.

Happy Fourth of July to you, DemocratSinceBirth and to your brother!

Thanks for the speech. I had not read it before. It's unsurprisingly brilliant, given that Frederick Douglass wrote it.

And one of his most famous.

Even today, there are citizens who don't understand the mixed feelings that a whole segment of this nation's population has regarding this country's liberation and creation of a new government, because that liberation only applied to certain people and not the rest. Basically, my ancestors were chattel and none of the rules applied, even if freed or born free. Several years after Douglass gave that speech, the Supreme Court rendered that infamous decision in the Dred Scott case -