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Published Date: 05 July 2008
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, 5 July 1852
Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence?

What, to the American slave, is your fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to h...



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  • Last Updated: 04 July 2008 9:18 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Beth Boyle,

NY 06/07/2008 06:57:07
Most African Americans celebrate the 4th of July like the rest of America does. Most are proud to be Americans they just want all the racism to vanish and be done with. Maybe if Obama becomes president in Nov. we can right allot of wrongs. The South harbors the most old ideas about race but we can celebrate with great fire works as Jesse Helms the racist bigot senator died on the 4th of July!
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BridgetC,

Forfar 06/07/2008 13:23:40
I think if you read this, omitting the slave reference, it could be a speech made throughout America's lifespan, right up to the present day. I find especially fitting in the current (and the recent last few years) climate, the last sentence. Someone illegally held in Guantamino Bay, amongst others, could have made the same speech.

 

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