Frederick Douglass Condemned Slaveholders On 4th Of July
Frederick Douglass & President Barack Obama
From BET.com:
A full century-and-a-half before President Barack Obama began mesmerizing the country with his moving oratory, another Black man gave what some call his greatest speech.
Frederick Douglass had not only a White parent and fatherless upbringing in common with America’s future leader; he also shared Obama’s vision to change government. It was in Rochester, New York, July 1852 when the ex-slave challenged White slavery opponents to step up their game, giving the speech that author David W. Blight describes as “abolition’s rhetorical masterpiece.”
“Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today?” Douglass asked. “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim.”
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A what they fail to add what douglas said was nagas should be foolish for celebrating this day called the fourth of july. Y celebrate this beasts independance we wasn’t free
From being dragged here in chains and forced against our will to being elected leader of this country…amazing. Yet we still have much farther to go.
Very Powerful. We as a people have to remember all the hardache our ancestors had endurred. Remember this, and strive to make them proud by never letting their sacrifice’s go un-noticed.
this is a beautiful photo spread. such a long journey and still so far to go…
The forth of july is the day NAT TURNER went buc wild on them kkkrackas and chopped em up. So rock ya red black and green for nat turner the coldesr preacher to ever live