4th Of July Activism and Inspiration

Let’s commence this 4th of July with a music! Click on the connection down below for Reina del Cid’s highly effective adaptation of “My Nation ‘Tis of Thee.”

“Land of dystopia/
Religious myopia.”

All those of you who are in NYC and have no plans in the quite in the vicinity of long term can be part of me at this march in Brooklyn at 5 PM nowadays.

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On the academic front, there is no time like the current to go through (or re-read) the famed 4th of July speech by statesman/orator/abolitionist Frederick Douglass. If you’re much more of a listener than a reader, you are in luck, mainly because you can hear James Earl Jones examine it.

JAMES EARL JONES READS THE DOUGLASS SPEECH.

Every time I re-examine this speech myself, 1 aspect of it constantly hits me otherwise than the very last time, depending on present-day situations. Now it is this passage:

There are seventy-two crimes in the Point out of Virginia, which, if committed by a black person, (no subject how ignorant he be), matter him to the punishment of death when only two of the very same crimes will subject matter a white man to the like punishment.

How minimal has modified, and how tough we ought to battle! But don’t despair. As Coretta Scott King reported, “Freedom is in no way actually won. You earn it and gain it in just about every technology.” Let us earn.