Kieran: great reading is the fact that you took "I'm posting this speech" as "I'm aiming this speech at the left for doing x thing", which he never said. so apparently you just can't read at all.

Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

"I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."

"Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future."

"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed." Would that the left would learn this fucking lesson and direct that scorching irony towards the people who deserve it, and not the folks in solidarity with us.

You're really citing the Douglass 4th of July speech against the left for doing some kind of unspecified bad thing? Wow that's great reading

great reading is the fact that you took "I'm posting this speech" as "I'm aiming this speech at the left for doing x thing", which he never said. so apparently you just can't read at all.

Do you think the sentence “would that the left would learn this fucking lesson” is from Douglass?

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