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Frederick Douglass asked what the Fourth of July meant to the slave. In 2025, the question still haunts Black Americans, especially as MAGA celebrates with fireworks, beer, and denial. iPINIONS marks this Independence Day by echoing the founding contradictions Douglass indicted. Read more on my Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/what-to-the-black-is-the-fourth-of Read more.
I’m referring, of course, to the famous 1852 speech by Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? Because, frankly, you could substitute Black for Slave throughout and it would still resonate. Douglass decried the many ways America’s treatment of Black folks made a mockery of its Declaration of Independence and founding… Read more.
No doubt we are all familiar with the dream Martin Luther King Jr had for his four little children. But, in so many ways, that dream has become a nightmare. Nothing betrays this fact quite like his namesake, MLK III, being all over TV last week damning two white Democratic senators to hell for blocking… Read more.
