Posted on 07/05/2019 6:00:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Sen. Ted Cruz gave Colin Kaepernick a history lesson on Thursday after the former San Francisco 49ers player posted a quote from abolitionist Frederick Douglass on Independence Day.
“What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? This Fourth of July is yours, not mine…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,” Kaepernick tweeted, quoting from Douglass’s “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” speech, which was delivered on July 5, 1852 to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in upstate New York.
“What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? This Fourth of July is yours, not mine…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.”
- Frederick Douglass pic.twitter.com/IWLujGCJHn— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) July 4, 2019
The passage was presented along with a video that included longer segments of the speech while showing images of slaves and the Civil War era interspersed with video of police using force against African-Americans.
“You quote a mighty and historic speech by the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass,” Sen. Cruz wrote in response, “but, without context, many modern readers will misunderstand.”
You quote a mighty and historic speech by the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass, but, without context, many modern readers will misunderstand. Two critical points: https://t.co/x4oLfa9DrH— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 5, 2019
The Texas Republican proceeded to give Kaepernick “two critical points.”
“This speech was given in 1852, before the Civil War, when the abomination of slavery still existed. Thanks to Douglass and so many other heroes, we ended that grotesque evil and have made enormous strides to protecting the civil rights of everybody,” Cruz tweeted.
(1) This speech was given in 1852, before the Civil War, when the abomination of slavery still existed. Thanks to Douglass and so many other heroes, we ended that grotesque evil and have made enormous strides to protecting the civil rights of everybody.— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 5, 2019
As for Cruz’s second point: “Douglass was not anti-American; he was, rightly and passionately, anti-slavery. Indeed, he concluded the speech as follows:
“Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented, of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country.
“There are forces in operation, which must inevitably, work the downfall of slavery. ‘The arm of the Lord is not shortened,’ and the doom of slavery is certain.
“I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from ‘the Declaration of Independence,’ the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age.”
(2) Douglass was not anti-American; he was, rightly and passionately, anti-slavery. Indeed, he concluded the speech as follows:— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 5, 2019
“Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented, of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country.— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 5, 2019
“There are forces in operation, which must inevitably, work the downfall of slavery. ‘The arm of the Lord is not shortened,’ and the doom of slavery is certain.— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 5, 2019
“I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from ‘the Declaration of Independence,’ the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age.”— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 5, 2019
In conclusion, Cruz said everyone should read the speech in its entirety.
“It is powerful, inspirational, and historically important in bending the arc of history towards justice,” he said.
Let me encourage everyone, READ THE ENTIRE SPEECH; it is powerful, inspirational, and historically important in bending the arc of history towards justice: https://t.co/il9WNrmxho— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 5, 2019
The exchange comes after Nike pulled an Independence Day themed sneaker featuring the Betsy Ross flag because Kaepernick complained they were offensive.
And I’m very glad Ted Cruz stepped up to offer them an education.
Kapernick is a hemorrhoid on the ass of culture.
See my tag line.
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Kraperfink is a slave to his own stupidity.
Kaepernick can’t read an comprehend, he can only copy and paste. Such a loser.
What have I, or those I represent, have to do with your grievance against America, Mr. Kaepernick? If your problem is with the behavior of people 170 years ago, I suggest you take it up with them!
Well put!
Good for Cruz, but that Kapernick schmuck has the nerve to go on about slavery. Tired of hearing it. You didn’t live through it. It does not effect you. Slavery is not part of our country that exists today, so shut the f##$ up already!
Let us now bend the arc of history away from abortion.
• A combination of a rational metaphysics and rational epistemology produces a rational ethics. Two virtues of a rational ethics are justice and productiveness. America, despite its flaws, was the greatest country on earth when it was founded. Over the years it has proved to be the most productive country on earth and it corrected its flaws. For these reasons it deserves to be admired and appreciated, not hated and condemned, just because it was not perfect when it was founded.
• great economic power
• great military power
• great founding documents: Constitution, Bill of Rights, & Declaration of Independence
• great traditional institutions (that leftards are destroying)
great ethical and political principles, ideals, & values that leftards are destroying (reason and rational virtues, God and God-given natural rights, freedom, private property, divine absolute morality, individualism, egoistic personal pursuit of happiness, consent of the governed, no need for a king or dictator, checks and balances, division of power, prohibition of initiation of force, capitalism)
Today’s American blacks should be thankful their ancestors were American slaves, as this grateful and clear thinking American black points out.
“A black American author has sparked anger and controversy among black nationalists “by repudiating his African roots and thanking God his ancestor was enslaved.”
“Keith Richburg has been shunned and insulted for daring to reject the Afro-centric idealism which is an article of faith in black America. In Out Of America, published in February,1997, (hardcover, 288 pages; ‘Basic Books,’ ISBN: 0465001874), after he spent three years reporting from Africa for the Washington Post, Mr Richburg hurls down a challenge to black American leaders to stop deceiving themselves and the 35 million (black) descendants of slaves, that Africa is Eden on earth.
“I’m tired of lying,’ he writes. ‘And I’m tired of all the ignorance and hypocrisy and the double standards I hear and read about Africa, much of it from people who’ve never been there, let alone spent three years walking around amid the corpses.
“Talk to me about Africa and my black roots and my kinship with my African brothers and I’ll throw it back in your face, and then I’ll rub your nose in the images of the rotting flesh.’
“Richburg spent three years covering the continent’s senseless violence, corruption, bloody and incessant cruelties—machete-wielding Hutu militiamen, a cholera epidemic in Zaire, famine in Somalia, civil war in Liberia, disease, dirt, dictatorships, killer children, AIDS, terror.
“Had my ancestor not made it out of here,’ Richburg muses, ‘I might have ended up in that crowd...maybe I would have been one of those bodies, washing over the waterfall in Tanzania or maybe my son would have been set ablaze by soldiers. Or I would be limping now from the torture I received in some rancid police cell...’
https://www.revisionisthistory.org/slaves2.html
Cassius Clay said something similar.
The irony is that this buffoon who can’t get a job n a roaring economy, and couldn’t keep a job in his chosen field o endeavor - and thus is simply given money for absolutely nothing - rants on about nonexistent slavery.
Meanwhile, he was adopted when he was weeks old, by a white family.
Given opportunities for success that most people never have.
Well stated.
Cruz should have pointed this out...
We’ll take in one of these Africans for every Halfricans like Krapernick that goes back to Africa.
But wait... the NFL has told me that the kneeling players, including Kaepernick who started it all, were never anti-america and anti-flag, they were anti-police brutality. But Kaepernick clearly HATES the flag and America. Could it be ... is it possible ... the NFL lied?
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