My July Fourth Question

Posted July 4th, 2008 by Prometheus 6

Race and Identity

Read around this ol' site and ask when Black folks should start celebrating their independance.

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Independence Day: 1852

On July 4th, 2008 The Family Clone says:

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 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 denunciation 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 of savages.

There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States at this very hour.

~ Frederick Douglass - Independence Day Speech at Rochester, 1852 ~

It's about family and friends.

On July 4th, 2008 rikyrah says:

Not feeling the 4th, 'per se', but the time to enjoy family and friends. And, because whatever this day is, it is because of ancestors who took far more shit than I'll ever have to, and I appreciate that.

Prometheus 6