Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. . . .the feeling of the nation must be quickened. The conscience of the nation must be roused, the propriety of the nation must be startled, the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed, and his crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced. To [the American slave] 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 solemninity are, to him, mere bomblast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy. A thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.. . .in bold barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. youtube/watch?v=mb_sqh577Zw
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:45:10 +0000
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