Posted on 07/04/2013 12:55:38 PM PDT by Osage Orange
Are you saying that nothing has changes in 161 years?
“changes” = “changed”
I can easily imagine Alan Keyes delivering this speech.
The democrats are still holding slaves. Granted the methods are different but the results are the same.
Generally agree with him, but it would not have been difficult to find a country with more revolting barbarity at the time.
Shameless hypocrisy, he had a point. :)
Wish I could have known the man....
And yes...with hypocrisy...he had a sharp point.
I wonder if their style was alike?
In light of his well-reasoned and eloquent oratory, would today’s Black “leaders” accuse Frederick Douglass of acting White?
Yes.
Great Britain themselves couldn’t be beat for hypocrisy over slavery. At the time of the revolution the Brits declared slaves to be free only because they needed the fighting men. Then the British largely broke their promises to freed slaves who fought for them. Instead of giving them free passage to England, Canada, and Africa, many were simply left and returned to slavery, others were taken onboard british ships and sold back into slavery in the Caribbean. And this is after allowing it to go on in the colonies for many years.
The British were also making a buck of slavery in the south in the years leading to the civil war. (As was the north)
Its a far more complex issue than people want to acknowledge but at the same time, the pure wrongness of it is also obvious.
Hypocrisy requires that a person must profess a position one way while secretly holding a contrary position. In American history from the founding of the nation until the 1960’s very very few thought blacks were equal to whites. Therefore, how could people in those times be hypocrites on the issue of race? The people of those times fully expressed in word and deed that the black was not the equal of the white. It is only under the current egalitarian prejudice that hypocrisy would be a valid accusation on this issue.
Hypocrisy requires that a person must profess a position one way while secretly holding a contrary position. In American history from the founding of the nation until the 1960’s very very few thought blacks were equal to whites. Therefore, how could people in those times be hypocrites on the issue of race? The people of those times fully expressed in word and deed that the black was not the equal of the white. It is only under the current egalitarian prejudice that hypocrisy would be a valid accusation on this issue.
Well....”they” didn’t express that in the DOI...and I think that’s what Douglas was referring to.
Frederick and Abraham Lincoln met at the White House. They personally liked each other. Frederick considered himself a Republican as did most slaves. He also spoke at Hillsdale College during its first decade as an institution.
Yup. From the cotton plantation to the welfare plantation.
I think hypocrisy would come from whether or not you think blacks are “men”, not if they are equal. Given the wording of the Declaration.
See “Huckleberry Finn” The attitude expressed by Aunt Polly’s sister-the discussion about a steam boat explosion, if I remember correctly.
I’m just saying, you don’t have to believe they are equal to whites to agree that blacks are human. If the people of the time agree that black people are human (some didn’t) then they would have been hypocrites to celebrate Independence Day when the Declaration of Independence is so clear on the subject.
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