And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
"Day Starr (*No-qui-si*)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replies:
Words from Frederick Douglass - an African/Native
American, still relevant after all these years....Day
Starr (*Noquisi*)
I am not incuded within the pale of this glorious
anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the
immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in
which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in
common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty,
prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your
fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that
brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes
and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine.
You may rejoice, I must mourn.
To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated
temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in
joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious
irony.
Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to
speak today? If so, there is a
parallel to your conduct. And let me warn you that it
is dangerous to copy th example of a nation whose
crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the
breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in
irrevocable ruin! I can today take up the plaintive
lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people!
"By the river of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea,
there we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our
harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
For there, they that carried us away captive, required
of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us
mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
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