4th Of July Activism and Inspiration

Let us start out this 4th of July with a track! Click the link underneath for Reina del Cid’s highly effective adaptation of “My Nation ‘Tis of Thee.”

“Land of dystopia/
Spiritual myopia.”

Those of you who are in NYC and have no designs in the quite near upcoming can be a part of me at this march in Brooklyn at 5 PM nowadays.

Not in New York Town or in any other case not readily available? Never stress! I have a week’s well worth of activism solutions for folks in NYC and throughout the nation in my hottest Indivisible Activate NYC e-newsletter.

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On the educational front, there is no time like the existing to study (or re-read) the famous 4th of July speech by statesman/orator/abolitionist Frederick Douglass. If you are far more of a listener than a reader, you are in luck, since you can listen to James Earl Jones read it.

JAMES EARL JONES READS THE DOUGLASS SPEECH.

Whenever I re-read through this speech myself, one particular aspect of it generally hits me in another way than the past time, based on present-day functions. Right now it is this passage:

There are seventy-two crimes in the Point out of Virginia, which, if committed by a black person, (no make any difference how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of loss of life even though only two of the exact crimes will issue a white gentleman to the like punishment.

How little has changed, and how challenging we will have to fight! But do not despair. As Coretta Scott King explained, “Freedom is under no circumstances seriously won. You get paid it and earn it in each and every generation.” Let us earn.