might better the day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, is he wasn't a RACIST that is...
Posted on 07/05/2021 6:22:46 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Edited on 07/05/2021 6:25:13 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The free blacks who made up a huge share of the Rhode Island Regiment did not think the American Revolution was being fought to perpetuate slavery.
Have at it...
The writer apparently takes his nom de plume from Sekou Toure, the dictator of Guinea who turned his country into one of Africa's worst Third World hell holes.
Are they upset with the 150 countries around the world that allow slavery today?
Wow, I didn't see that coming...
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Two Christmases, two Independence Days, two national anthems, soon to be two flags. How long can the center hold in a country with two separate groups (and soon to be more) of people?
Juneteenth was brought to you by the same type of people Independence Day was. White, freedom-loving, gun-toting people.
Toure is a rotting pile of lying racist dogsqueezins.
The nation you despise is the nation that spent its treasure and spilled its blood to make you free.
As I recall from more than a decade ago, it's just a black--or actually semi-black--poofter.
It was famous for being famous--for a cultural minute. Self-indulgent, superficial, smug, and tedious. And quickly forgotten.
We have in this country a huge segment of society that are shallow thinkers. Critical thinking skills / troubleshooting skills are taught for the most part. Either by ones parents or educators.
Just watch video highlights of inner city crime, violence, brawls, lootings, riots. There are a few things that are common to most scenarios.
We are witnessing the fall of America. A degradation of our civil society. Our justice system morphing into a third world system where due process, equal justice, rule of law are disintegrating.
Not sure what the answer is to restoring America. Seems the divides are so great that bridging that gap with compromise means moving further toward the left. Shame really.
My thought...is it time for a national divorce?
"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them" - Thomas Jefferson, 1821.
Hi.
What is a, “Touré?”
Thanks.
5.56mm
How DARE you skip over those 620,000+ who gave their lives. Go back to your ignorant hole.
Yes, I do not think is repairable. Many think like me. Many.
might better the day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, is he wasn't a RACIST that is...
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Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men too great enough to give fame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor their memory.
They loved their country better than their own private interests; and, though this is not the highest form of human excellence, all will concede that it is a rare virtue, and that when it is exhibited, it ought to command respect. He who will, intelligently, lay down his life for his country, is a man whom it is not in human nature to despise. Your fathers staked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, on the cause of their country. In their admiration of liberty, they lost sight of all other interests. They were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression. They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. They believed in order; but not in the order of tyranny. With them, nothing
was “settled”; that was not right. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were “final”; not slavery and oppression. You may well cherish the memory of such men. They were great in their day and generation. Their solid manhood stands out the more as we contrast it with these degenerate times.
How circumspect, exact and proportionate were all their movements! How unlike the politicians of an hour! Their statesmanship looked beyond the passing moment, and stretched away in strength into the distant future. They seized upon eternal principles, and set a glorious example in their defense. Mark them!
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A portion that this author conveniently left out of Fredrick Douglass’ 1852 speech, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July”. Douglass often was requested to speak on particular topics to abolitionist, church and women’s groups. For this one, he was to speak on what the 4th of July meant to slaves. Douglass, unlike his mentor William Lloyd Garrison, was a staunch supporter of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Unlike Garrison, who wanted the country to restart back to the Declaration, Douglass supported the Constitution and felt that it should remain and be extended to include blacks. Remember, the Dred Scot decision had not happened yet and there was much discussion of whether the Constitution was meant to apply to blacks.
Douglass is probably the most influential black man in American history. Meeting with Lincoln, he is probably the reason that eventually the black troops were commissioned during the Civil War. These soldiers were roughly 200,000 in number and contributed greatly to the success of the Union. However, Douglass is often overshadowed by other important black Americans like Dubois or King, most likely because of his ardent support for America.
Unfortunately, that didn’t actually happen on June 19, 1865. That’s why the holiday is so bogus.
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