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*JimmyinSD* · 07-04-2021, 12:51 PM

Hoping everyone has a safe and happy 4th of July.

07-04-2021, 02:37 PM

Ive always believed Independence Day should be a THREE day holiday.

Independence was decided by 12 of the 13 colonies at the Continental congress on
July 2nd - Made public declaration on the 4th.

07-04-2021, 05:39 PM

You too Jimmy!

Surely this doesnt need to be in Sensitive Topics??

07-04-2021, 05:43 PM

Dont JPP yourself.

07-04-2021, 11:24 PM

Quote: @"purplefaithful" said:
You too Jimmy!

Surely this doesnt need to be in Sensitive Topics??

Oops, I didn't mean to put it in here.

07-05-2021, 02:05 AM

happy fourth--- keep all your fingers and have fun

07-05-2021, 02:13 AM

07-05-2021, 02:22 AM

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07-05-2021, 04:35 AM

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07-05-2021, 04:48 AM

Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist and black American leader, once condemned the Fourth of July. link
So, at least, we were reminded in 2018 by Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King, who quoted Douglass in declaring the 4th a “sham.”
King quoted a passage from Douglass’s 1852 speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”. Douglass declared:

Quote: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 cruelty 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.

But that is not all Douglass said — and King conveniently left out the rest of the speech, in which Douglass declared that the principles of the Declaration of Independence — if not the practice of American law at the time — were redemptive:

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