"What to the Slave is the 4th of July" Frederick Douglass Speech

[@frederickdouglas6877]

Greatest Frederick Douglass video on the internet. I am glad he is getting recognized more and more.

[@mjacanjam]

Funny

[@itstheru274]

"OMG !!❗😲😮😍" Do i 💘 love this!!❗ i pray you more Afrikan Jamaican Black Brother's and Sister's will watch👀" and 🎶 listen to this !!❗😍😍💯💯💯

[@turtlenoheart]

Yeah, but only for the words people like. Check out the full speech, it's enlightening in more ways than I think I know right now. (masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf)

[@Amos-Draw_Near]

Thanks! I just used this speech in my AP and on-level classes, and I could find good readings and readings with the text, but not both. This is exactly what I wanted.

[@queenstreetsystems]

How his words are more relevant today than ever before, and not just to the people of colour but to us all

[@turtlenoheart]

His words are even more relevant if you get the full speech... this KZbinr is deceiving people. kzbin.info/door/mkKEmAev-o-E7HVfoxdJ_Afeatured

[@plum-bum2541]

We should have learned this in high school. But it was the 90's.😪

[@itstheru274]

So what ! We still should of learn this in school!😟😯" They kept the "🌎 World from us and feed us there stuff😟😯" some of us got it and some didn't😟😯

[@turtlenoheart]

This is unfortunate because half of his speech is missing from this video. It's one of the most amazing pieces of oratory I've ever come across. (masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf)

[@desmondjoseph4331]

All people should know the truth and accept it ,this is truth, live for truth

[@hopestoryteller]

Transcript: (Thank me later, fellow APUSH kids!) Fellow citizens, pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice embodied in that Declaration of Independence extended to us? And am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us? I am not included 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 life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham, your boasted liberty an unholy license, your national greatness swelling vanity. Your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless. Your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour. At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument is needed! Oh, had I the ability, and could reach the nation’s ear, I would today pour forth a stream, a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake! The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

[@donjuanbanks4552]

SoulStealer1987 thank you

[@healthveyebrations]

🙏🏽☺️💕

[@turtlenoheart]

His ACTUAL Speach [FULL LENGTH] - TLDR: This video leaves out the climax and conclusion of the speech... masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf

[@jointhehumanrace4039]

Share this with anyone and everyone by the 4th

[@itstheru274]

"You better know it!!❗😮😲😍" i sent this too every Afrikan Jamaican Black Brother's and Sister's i could think of!!❗ including my grown children and grandchildren! "Reach One Teach One!!❗ 😍😍

[@FiremarshalM1]

And then share the year? Context is important.

[@aestewa]

Done

[@kurtrobertson495]

His anger is palatable

[@CaptIronfoundersson]

Did you mean palpable? Palatable means you're able to eat and enjoy it.

[@deewestwood634]

It's true today......and he said this over 100 years ago......BLACK LIVES MATTER!!

[@mattcollins6126]

We all agree black lives matter and agree all lives matter. Your life is no more important than mine and mine is no important than yours. But the movement,”Black Lives Matter” is run by Marxists People who donated money to, “Black Lives Matter.” Where did the money go? Did it got to George Floyd or Breyonna Taylor’s family... no it didn’t. More black people have been killed during these riots than have died unarmed by police in the last 3 years. Wake up and do research. Does BLM protest in Chicago or East Baltimore. No, they only riot when a white cop kills a black person.

[@turtlenoheart]

If this speech is going to be a rallying cry, at least read more than half of it: masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf

[@hj8501]

❤ yes Black lives matter! It's the foundations of true life! When we live the truth. Let's begin to respect self and each others!! Mercy Lord! Love always

[@socialfollow]

Such a powerful speech!!!!

[@cbread208]

Tremendous!

[@KashmirMusic042]

This is great.

[@tlmcqu80]

He knew, we need the storm!!

[@dannydanny6442]

This speech was written before the Civil War from 1861-1865

[@MichaelScreamMachineEvans]

Douglass High school class of 1994 this was required reading

[@endtimeconspiracy6185]

BRAVO

[@epic_gameryeetxx2220]

i wish i could hear is real voice

[@appleplayzzz4236]

Good information

[@ACozz]

Is this James earl jones speaking rn?

[@JoczProductions]

yup.

[@RealBigVideos]

We need the storm.

[@FiremarshalM1]

What year?

[@jasoncarson1043]

Darth Vader did a great job

[@prospectjay]

Dont disrespect Mr. James Earl Jones. Put a lot of RESPECT on his name.

[@deewestwood634]

James Earl Jones is da truth!!

[@annanderson1204]

TRUTH.

[@turtlenoheart]

Half-Truth... masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf

[@turtlenoheart]

Why did you leave out the second half? I love James Earl Jones and I thought he did an excellent job on speaking this... Why cut off the climax, crescendo, and conclusion? Not only are you robbing us of James' amazing voice but it's hard to trust someone/KZbinrs when they exclude relevant information in a way that seems patently obvious. EDIT: If anyone would like to read Frederick Douglass and honor the full speech-that I'm sure he worked his ass off on-by reading more than half of it. Check this out: masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf

[@Tazzmaneytv]

Damn that sounds close

[@jazzsoul60]

Well.......!

[@ComplexCarmine]

💝

[@cratogreen]

2021

[@henrifischer1119]

...must be humbled....

[@johnharris6837]

Please do not disgrace our African-American ancestors by celebrating the 4th of July we would actually be celebrating slavery and our own ignorance, however am aware that some of us are still plantation minded,ignorance can be taught and is generally passed on from one generation to the next,for you i can only pray,but for others let's not celebrate the injustice handed down upon our ancestors by the devil and his lot,.

[@DJ71867]

If you don't understand what the speech was about then you don't understand that it is still going by way of police and random Caucasians.

[@antonietaovalle1484]

Sorry can you explain your point? I'm studying USA history and literature

[@turtlenoheart]

Read the full speech if you don't like being deceived by random KZbinrs: masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf

[@thetruthwillsetyoufree9209]

who is here after the murder of George Perry Floyd?

[@shoopinc]

If Frederick were alive today he would condemn black lives matter for their support of violence. Blm is more effective at ending black lives than the kkk and Confederacy combined.

[@itstheru274]

" Me!!❗ and not only George " So many other's of our Afrikan Jamaican Black Brother's and Sister's !!❗😟😯" including the shit there doing too us right Now!!❗😠😡😟" with this covid virus shit they wanna keep killing us from the inside out with there "Dam Vaccine's and only "God knows what else!😡😟😯

[@itstheru274]

i am !!❗😟😯

[@damuaskari2275]

Happy 4th of ur Lies not mine

[@Ved000000]

Broke: Whitey on the Moon Bespoke:

[@epic_gameryeetxx2220]

that cant be fredericks douglass voice cmon now 2017 he's been dead in 2017

[@Michael-vq4co]

How stupid can u be omg

[@robertmanno5749]

James Earl Jones reading the speech.

[@turtlenoheart]

@@Michael-vq4co How stupid can u be? lol The dudes name is gameryeet... how serious can you take a comment from them on youtube?

[@TheDirtyyoungman1]

He's just mad because other black people in some part of Africa captured his grandfather and sold him to a Portuguese slave trader... Don't be mad at Americans.. We didn't take you from you homeland.. Other African natives did...

[@TheBrunarr]

I admire Douglass a lot but he was wrong on a few points in here

[@planetgenz]

feel free to share with us all

[@alexzander1839]

Bru Master please expound on that.

[@jaunenb1]

please do tell

[@MPam1619]

And, in what regard, pray tell, did you ADMIRE Douglass A LOT?

[@nextup91]

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