4th Of July Activism and Inspiration
Let’s start off this 4th of July with a song! Click the url below for Reina del Cid’s highly effective adaptation of “My Nation ‘Tis of Thee.”
“Land of dystopia/
Religious myopia.”
Individuals of you who are in NYC and have no plans in the very in close proximity to long run can be a part of me at this march in Brooklyn at 5 PM now.
Not in New York Metropolis or if not not out there? Never fear! I have a week’s value of activism alternatives for folks in NYC and throughout the nation in my most up-to-date Indivisible Activate NYC publication.
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On the educational entrance, there is no time like the existing to study (or re-examine) the renowned 4th of July speech by statesman/orator/abolitionist Frederick Douglass. If you are a lot more of a listener than a reader, you are in luck, for the reason that you can listen to James Earl Jones study it.
JAMES EARL JONES READS THE DOUGLASS SPEECH.
Anytime I re-go through this speech myself, a person element of it normally hits me in different ways than the last time, depending on recent situations. Now it is this passage:
There are seventy-two crimes in the Condition of Virginia, which, if dedicated by a black gentleman, (no issue how ignorant he be), matter him to the punishment of loss of life when only two of the same crimes will subject matter a white guy to the like punishment.
How small has altered, and how really hard we ought to combat! But really don’t despair. As Coretta Scott King stated, “Freedom is under no circumstances definitely won. You make it and get it in every technology.” Let us get.
