In remembrance of those who sacrificed for centuries this Fourth of July online political news magazine BlackState.com features the words of the abolitionist icon Frederick Douglass.
July 1, 2005 (Press Release) --
In remembrance of those who sacrificed for centuries this fourth of July online political news magazine BlackState.com features the words of the abolitionist icon Frederick Douglass.
In his famous speech, What to the slave is the Fourth of July?, Frederick Douglass unleashes a stinging indictment of the horrific system and hypocrisy of American democracy. He states,
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour..."
For more information visit BlackState.com at http://www.blackstate.com
In his famous speech, What to the slave is the Fourth of July?, Frederick Douglass unleashes a stinging indictment of the horrific system and hypocrisy of American democracy. He states,
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour..."
For more information visit BlackState.com at http://www.blackstate.com
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