Posted on 07/04/2018 4:43:13 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King, a leading voice on the left, declared on Twitter Wednesday: The 4th of July was [sic] always been a sham. Always.
King, who received BETs humanitarian hero award last weekend, was commenting on a quote from abolitionist and, later, Republican Frederick Douglass.
In 1852, Douglass delivered a speech about the Fourth of July. King referenced a single passage in which Douglass said:
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 King left out the rest of the speech, which is available, in full, online.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Martin Luther Cream
Perhaps mr Shaun can tell us about the great nation from which his ancestors sprang forth to awe the world, with their science, their written language, their mathematical genius, their astounding architecture, or their cultural practice of cannibalistic behavior.
Cant imagine being so desperate for attention that I would do what this degenerate is doing.
And I cannot imagine being so lazy and having such a low set of standards that I would tooerate someone claiming to represent my entire race; whether he was a member of my race or not.
I don’t care if his ancestors came over on the Mayflower. FedEx this asshole to Africa.
No one cares what you say ,butt head
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Exactly. I will forever be aggravated by threads under breaking news that is nothing more than twitter or social media posts from morons on the left about Trump, his voters or white people in general.
WGAF!
I see Shaun got the day off from choppin’ cotton. Marse let him go on Twitter too.
Particularly to South Africa. Then he can see what is going on with the farmers there. He’ll realize how much danger he’ll be in there merely due to his race which he can’t change.
You can leave any time, Honkie.
Independence Day has never been a sham. Never.
Anti-american traitors make these claims. If they don’t like it here, give them fair so a better place.
GTHBLM
Honest to Pete, who gives a care what this freakin fraud thinks!
Martin Luther Cream
Talcum X
Yes only the US had slaves. I am sure all the slaves in the US today would consider it a sham.
Shaun King is a free white man.
There’s really nothing to be said about a character whose ignorance runs so deep.
Why doesn’t this blasshole go to, say, Zimbabwe?
Talcum X sounds off again.
Dude. Get over it. And yourself.
More inanities from Talcum X.
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