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"Not Born on the Fourth of July." A Portrait of Jim Nosler decorates the porch of our former Burnham home for a patriotic holiday. 1995. #burnham #freedomavenue #home #homes #formerhome #formerhouse #1990s #twentiethcentury #lastcentury #victorianhome #victorianhomes #colonialhome #colonialhomes #victorianhouse #victorianhouses #colonialhouse #colonialhouses #oldhouse #oldhouses #pennsylvania #summer #patriotic #fourthofjuly #oilpainting #oilpaintings #memorialday #laborday #juneteenth

"Not Born on the Fourth of July." A Portrait of Jim Nosler decorates the porch of our former Burnham home for a patriotic holiday. 1995. #burnham #freedomavenue #home #homes #formerhome #formerhouse #1990s #twentiethcentury #lastcentury #victorianhome #victorianhomes #colonialhome #colonialhomes #victorianhouse #victorianhouses #colonialhouse #colonialhouses #oldhouse #oldhouses #pennsylvania #summer #patriotic #fourthofjuly #oilpainting #oilpaintings #memorialday #laborday #juneteenth

"Not Born on the Fourth of July." A Portrait of Jim Nosler decorates the porch of our former Burnham home for a patriotic holiday. 1995. #burnham #freedomavenue #home #homes #formerhome #formerhouse #1990s #twentiethcentury #lastcentury #victorianhome #victorianhomes #colonialhome #colonialhomes #victorianhouse #victorianhouses #colonialhouse #colonialhouses #oldhouse #oldhouses #pennsylvania #summer #patriotic #fourthofjuly #oilpainting #oilpaintings #memorialday #laborday #juneteenth

"Not Born on the Fourth of July." A Portrait of Jim Nosler decorates the porch of our former Burnham home for a patriotic holiday. 1995. #burnham #freedomavenue #home #homes #formerhome #formerhouse #1990s #twentiethcentury #lastcentury #victorianhome #victorianhomes #colonialhome #colonialhomes #victorianhouse #victorianhouses #colonialhouse #colonialhouses #oldhouse #oldhouses #pennsylvania #summer #patriotic #fourthofjuly #oilpainting #oilpaintings #memorialday #laborday #juneteenth

"Not Born on the Fourth of July." A Portrait of Jim Nosler decorates the porch of our former Burnham home for a patriotic holiday. 1995. #burnham #freedomavenue #home #homes #formerhome #formerhouse #1990s #twentiethcentury #lastcentury #victorianhome #victorianhomes #colonialhome #colonialhomes #victorianhouse #victorianhouses #colonialhouse #colonialhouses #oldhouse #oldhouses #pennsylvania #summer #patriotic #fourthofjuly #oilpainting #oilpaintings #memorialday #laborday #juneteenth

Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept

Mike Cone

“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)

These words still resonate today.

In the wake of our celebration of the 250th birthday of our independence, let us not forget the ugly truths in the birth and history of this nation. To wash over these truths, as our current administration is wont to do, is tantamount to erasing that part of our past which we should strive to learn from, and to better ourselves as a people, to truly become that nation where the words penned by Thomas Jefferson are not just hollow mockery, but true:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the unalienable rights bestowed upon us. These rights are not to be infringed upon for any reason, whether it be race, color, ethnicity, religious beliefs or social status. For this to be true, we as a people need to understand and accept that indeed “ALL” men are created equal. In this regard, we have failed as a nation time and time again. There are numerous examples of our nation suppressing the civil liberties of the many throughout our history: chattel slavery, the Tulsa Race Massacre, forced dispossession of ancestral Native American lands, Selma, Alabama, Jim Crow laws, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment, Kent State, the Patriot Act, just to name a few. Hell, even Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.

My point in all this is we need to do better. It is morally important that we learn from our past and not ignore or erase it just because at times it can be ugly and messy. We need to continue to move forward, toward morality and virtue, because virtue will always prevail.

Our current president is unwilling in this regard. 

President Trump is the converse of morality and virtue and continually seems to move us backward with his version of revisionist history, distorting, altering and even falsifying historical evidence to fit his agenda. He is forever suppressing or attempting to suppress the civil liberties of those who oppose him. He has actively supported and empowered local governments to ban and remove books from public institutions. He has removed or altered exhibits, plaques and monuments from our National Parks, exhibits he terms “inappropriately disparaging to Americans past or living.” These exhibits include the nation’s first executive mansion, which detailed the nine people enslaved by George Washington; the Bunker Hill Monument, to eliminate language he deemed contrary to founding principles; and locations highlighting Japanese American internment and Native American conflicts. He has sent federal troops into our cities in direct defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act. He has allowed his defense secretary, who some call a Christian White Nationalist, to deny high-ranking promotions to senior Army and Navy officers, the majority being women and minorities, and to intervene in a Navy one-star admiral promotion list, removing nine highly vetted officers. The final list of 22 nominees contained zero women and only two non-white officers. Finally, his immigration policies appear to be an obvious attempt to rid the country of Black and Brown people. This is just a small sample of Trump’s penchant for authoritarianism and what this author feels is a deep hatred and disdain for anyone other than his own race. Donald Trump is the ideological antithesis to the phrase “all men are created equal.”

With that said, I was having a conversation with my good friend Nick Allison, an Army combat veteran and fellow Chaos Section contributor, the other day and mentioned my feelings of anger and visceral disgust for our current administration, so much so that I could not find a reason to celebrate our 250 years of independence, particularly as a veteran. I’ll end with Nick’s response:

“You know what? I think we can always find a reason to celebrate, regardless of the current occupant in the Oval Office, because there are always things and ideas and people worth celebrating. This is still a great country with great people and a wonderfully unique experiment in constitutional representative freedom. It gets messy and sometimes runs off the rails, but that’s kind of the whole point of the experiment: we’re a nation of people governing ourselves, which means it’s on us to correct course when things go sideways. Most of human history has been kings, monarchs and strongmen who never had to answer to anybody. Making it 250 years as a self-correcting experiment, messy and beautiful and stupid and wonderful all at once, is reason enough to celebrate. Don’t let one egotistical, narcissistic old man who will be out of office in a couple years, dead within ten, take that away from you.”

Mike Cone is a Marine Corps infantry veteran who served as a mortarman and forward observer in Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines. “Hollow Mockery” is his first piece for The Chaos Section. He lives on Long Island with his wife Cynthia.

Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept

Mike Cone

“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)

These words still resonate today.

In the wake of our celebration of the 250th birthday of our independence, let us not forget the ugly truths in the birth and history of this nation. To wash over these truths, as our current administration is wont to do, is tantamount to erasing that part of our past which we should strive to learn from, and to better ourselves as a people, to truly become that nation where the words penned by Thomas Jefferson are not just hollow mockery, but true:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the unalienable rights bestowed upon us. These rights are not to be infringed upon for any reason, whether it be race, color, ethnicity, religious beliefs or social status. For this to be true, we as a people need to understand and accept that indeed “ALL” men are created equal. In this regard, we have failed as a nation time and time again. There are numerous examples of our nation suppressing the civil liberties of the many throughout our history: chattel slavery, the Tulsa Race Massacre, forced dispossession of ancestral Native American lands, Selma, Alabama, Jim Crow laws, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment, Kent State, the Patriot Act, just to name a few. Hell, even Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.

My point in all this is we need to do better. It is morally important that we learn from our past and not ignore or erase it just because at times it can be ugly and messy. We need to continue to move forward, toward morality and virtue, because virtue will always prevail.

Our current president is unwilling in this regard. 

President Trump is the converse of morality and virtue and continually seems to move us backward with his version of revisionist history, distorting, altering and even falsifying historical evidence to fit his agenda. He is forever suppressing or attempting to suppress the civil liberties of those who oppose him. He has actively supported and empowered local governments to ban and remove books from public institutions. He has removed or altered exhibits, plaques and monuments from our National Parks, exhibits he terms “inappropriately disparaging to Americans past or living.” These exhibits include the nation’s first executive mansion, which detailed the nine people enslaved by George Washington; the Bunker Hill Monument, to eliminate language he deemed contrary to founding principles; and locations highlighting Japanese American internment and Native American conflicts. He has sent federal troops into our cities in direct defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act. He has allowed his defense secretary, who some call a Christian White Nationalist, to deny high-ranking promotions to senior Army and Navy officers, the majority being women and minorities, and to intervene in a Navy one-star admiral promotion list, removing nine highly vetted officers. The final list of 22 nominees contained zero women and only two non-white officers. Finally, his immigration policies appear to be an obvious attempt to rid the country of Black and Brown people. This is just a small sample of Trump’s penchant for authoritarianism and what this author feels is a deep hatred and disdain for anyone other than his own race. Donald Trump is the ideological antithesis to the phrase “all men are created equal.”

With that said, I was having a conversation with my good friend Nick Allison, an Army combat veteran and fellow Chaos Section contributor, the other day and mentioned my feelings of anger and visceral disgust for our current administration, so much so that I could not find a reason to celebrate our 250 years of independence, particularly as a veteran. I’ll end with Nick’s response:

“You know what? I think we can always find a reason to celebrate, regardless of the current occupant in the Oval Office, because there are always things and ideas and people worth celebrating. This is still a great country with great people and a wonderfully unique experiment in constitutional representative freedom. It gets messy and sometimes runs off the rails, but that’s kind of the whole point of the experiment: we’re a nation of people governing ourselves, which means it’s on us to correct course when things go sideways. Most of human history has been kings, monarchs and strongmen who never had to answer to anybody. Making it 250 years as a self-correcting experiment, messy and beautiful and stupid and wonderful all at once, is reason enough to celebrate. Don’t let one egotistical, narcissistic old man who will be out of office in a couple years, dead within ten, take that away from you.”

Mike Cone is a Marine Corps infantry veteran who served as a mortarman and forward observer in Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines. “Hollow Mockery” is his first piece for The Chaos Section. He lives on Long Island with his wife Cynthia.

Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept

Mike Cone

“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)

These words still resonate today.

In the wake of our celebration of the 250th birthday of our independence, let us not forget the ugly truths in the birth and history of this nation. To wash over these truths, as our current administration is wont to do, is tantamount to erasing that part of our past which we should strive to learn from, and to better ourselves as a people, to truly become that nation where the words penned by Thomas Jefferson are not just hollow mockery, but true:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the unalienable rights bestowed upon us. These rights are not to be infringed upon for any reason, whether it be race, color, ethnicity, religious beliefs or social status. For this to be true, we as a people need to understand and accept that indeed “ALL” men are created equal. In this regard, we have failed as a nation time and time again. There are numerous examples of our nation suppressing the civil liberties of the many throughout our history: chattel slavery, the Tulsa Race Massacre, forced dispossession of ancestral Native American lands, Selma, Alabama, Jim Crow laws, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment, Kent State, the Patriot Act, just to name a few. Hell, even Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.

My point in all this is we need to do better. It is morally important that we learn from our past and not ignore or erase it just because at times it can be ugly and messy. We need to continue to move forward, toward morality and virtue, because virtue will always prevail.

Our current president is unwilling in this regard. 

President Trump is the converse of morality and virtue and continually seems to move us backward with his version of revisionist history, distorting, altering and even falsifying historical evidence to fit his agenda. He is forever suppressing or attempting to suppress the civil liberties of those who oppose him. He has actively supported and empowered local governments to ban and remove books from public institutions. He has removed or altered exhibits, plaques and monuments from our National Parks, exhibits he terms “inappropriately disparaging to Americans past or living.” These exhibits include the nation’s first executive mansion, which detailed the nine people enslaved by George Washington; the Bunker Hill Monument, to eliminate language he deemed contrary to founding principles; and locations highlighting Japanese American internment and Native American conflicts. He has sent federal troops into our cities in direct defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act. He has allowed his defense secretary, who some call a Christian White Nationalist, to deny high-ranking promotions to senior Army and Navy officers, the majority being women and minorities, and to intervene in a Navy one-star admiral promotion list, removing nine highly vetted officers. The final list of 22 nominees contained zero women and only two non-white officers. Finally, his immigration policies appear to be an obvious attempt to rid the country of Black and Brown people. This is just a small sample of Trump’s penchant for authoritarianism and what this author feels is a deep hatred and disdain for anyone other than his own race. Donald Trump is the ideological antithesis to the phrase “all men are created equal.”

With that said, I was having a conversation with my good friend Nick Allison, an Army combat veteran and fellow Chaos Section contributor, the other day and mentioned my feelings of anger and visceral disgust for our current administration, so much so that I could not find a reason to celebrate our 250 years of independence, particularly as a veteran. I’ll end with Nick’s response:

“You know what? I think we can always find a reason to celebrate, regardless of the current occupant in the Oval Office, because there are always things and ideas and people worth celebrating. This is still a great country with great people and a wonderfully unique experiment in constitutional representative freedom. It gets messy and sometimes runs off the rails, but that’s kind of the whole point of the experiment: we’re a nation of people governing ourselves, which means it’s on us to correct course when things go sideways. Most of human history has been kings, monarchs and strongmen who never had to answer to anybody. Making it 250 years as a self-correcting experiment, messy and beautiful and stupid and wonderful all at once, is reason enough to celebrate. Don’t let one egotistical, narcissistic old man who will be out of office in a couple years, dead within ten, take that away from you.”

Mike Cone is a Marine Corps infantry veteran who served as a mortarman and forward observer in Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines. “Hollow Mockery” is his first piece for The Chaos Section. He lives on Long Island with his wife Cynthia.

Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept

Mike Cone

“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)

These words still resonate today.

In the wake of our celebration of the 250th birthday of our independence, let us not forget the ugly truths in the birth and history of this nation. To wash over these truths, as our current administration is wont to do, is tantamount to erasing that part of our past which we should strive to learn from, and to better ourselves as a people, to truly become that nation where the words penned by Thomas Jefferson are not just hollow mockery, but true:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the unalienable rights bestowed upon us. These rights are not to be infringed upon for any reason, whether it be race, color, ethnicity, religious beliefs or social status. For this to be true, we as a people need to understand and accept that indeed “ALL” men are created equal. In this regard, we have failed as a nation time and time again. There are numerous examples of our nation suppressing the civil liberties of the many throughout our history: chattel slavery, the Tulsa Race Massacre, forced dispossession of ancestral Native American lands, Selma, Alabama, Jim Crow laws, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment, Kent State, the Patriot Act, just to name a few. Hell, even Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.

My point in all this is we need to do better. It is morally important that we learn from our past and not ignore or erase it just because at times it can be ugly and messy. We need to continue to move forward, toward morality and virtue, because virtue will always prevail.

Our current president is unwilling in this regard. 

President Trump is the converse of morality and virtue and continually seems to move us backward with his version of revisionist history, distorting, altering and even falsifying historical evidence to fit his agenda. He is forever suppressing or attempting to suppress the civil liberties of those who oppose him. He has actively supported and empowered local governments to ban and remove books from public institutions. He has removed or altered exhibits, plaques and monuments from our National Parks, exhibits he terms “inappropriately disparaging to Americans past or living.” These exhibits include the nation’s first executive mansion, which detailed the nine people enslaved by George Washington; the Bunker Hill Monument, to eliminate language he deemed contrary to founding principles; and locations highlighting Japanese American internment and Native American conflicts. He has sent federal troops into our cities in direct defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act. He has allowed his defense secretary, who some call a Christian White Nationalist, to deny high-ranking promotions to senior Army and Navy officers, the majority being women and minorities, and to intervene in a Navy one-star admiral promotion list, removing nine highly vetted officers. The final list of 22 nominees contained zero women and only two non-white officers. Finally, his immigration policies appear to be an obvious attempt to rid the country of Black and Brown people. This is just a small sample of Trump’s penchant for authoritarianism and what this author feels is a deep hatred and disdain for anyone other than his own race. Donald Trump is the ideological antithesis to the phrase “all men are created equal.”

With that said, I was having a conversation with my good friend Nick Allison, an Army combat veteran and fellow Chaos Section contributor, the other day and mentioned my feelings of anger and visceral disgust for our current administration, so much so that I could not find a reason to celebrate our 250 years of independence, particularly as a veteran. I’ll end with Nick’s response:

“You know what? I think we can always find a reason to celebrate, regardless of the current occupant in the Oval Office, because there are always things and ideas and people worth celebrating. This is still a great country with great people and a wonderfully unique experiment in constitutional representative freedom. It gets messy and sometimes runs off the rails, but that’s kind of the whole point of the experiment: we’re a nation of people governing ourselves, which means it’s on us to correct course when things go sideways. Most of human history has been kings, monarchs and strongmen who never had to answer to anybody. Making it 250 years as a self-correcting experiment, messy and beautiful and stupid and wonderful all at once, is reason enough to celebrate. Don’t let one egotistical, narcissistic old man who will be out of office in a couple years, dead within ten, take that away from you.”

Mike Cone is a Marine Corps infantry veteran who served as a mortarman and forward observer in Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines. “Hollow Mockery” is his first piece for The Chaos Section. He lives on Long Island with his wife Cynthia.

Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept

Mike Cone

“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)

These words still resonate today.

In the wake of our celebration of the 250th birthday of our independence, let us not forget the ugly truths in the birth and history of this nation. To wash over these truths, as our current administration is wont to do, is tantamount to erasing that part of our past which we should strive to learn from, and to better ourselves as a people, to truly become that nation where the words penned by Thomas Jefferson are not just hollow mockery, but true:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the unalienable rights bestowed upon us. These rights are not to be infringed upon for any reason, whether it be race, color, ethnicity, religious beliefs or social status. For this to be true, we as a people need to understand and accept that indeed “ALL” men are created equal. In this regard, we have failed as a nation time and time again. There are numerous examples of our nation suppressing the civil liberties of the many throughout our history: chattel slavery, the Tulsa Race Massacre, forced dispossession of ancestral Native American lands, Selma, Alabama, Jim Crow laws, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment, Kent State, the Patriot Act, just to name a few. Hell, even Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.

My point in all this is we need to do better. It is morally important that we learn from our past and not ignore or erase it just because at times it can be ugly and messy. We need to continue to move forward, toward morality and virtue, because virtue will always prevail.

Our current president is unwilling in this regard. 

President Trump is the converse of morality and virtue and continually seems to move us backward with his version of revisionist history, distorting, altering and even falsifying historical evidence to fit his agenda. He is forever suppressing or attempting to suppress the civil liberties of those who oppose him. He has actively supported and empowered local governments to ban and remove books from public institutions. He has removed or altered exhibits, plaques and monuments from our National Parks, exhibits he terms “inappropriately disparaging to Americans past or living.” These exhibits include the nation’s first executive mansion, which detailed the nine people enslaved by George Washington; the Bunker Hill Monument, to eliminate language he deemed contrary to founding principles; and locations highlighting Japanese American internment and Native American conflicts. He has sent federal troops into our cities in direct defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act. He has allowed his defense secretary, who some call a Christian White Nationalist, to deny high-ranking promotions to senior Army and Navy officers, the majority being women and minorities, and to intervene in a Navy one-star admiral promotion list, removing nine highly vetted officers. The final list of 22 nominees contained zero women and only two non-white officers. Finally, his immigration policies appear to be an obvious attempt to rid the country of Black and Brown people. This is just a small sample of Trump’s penchant for authoritarianism and what this author feels is a deep hatred and disdain for anyone other than his own race. Donald Trump is the ideological antithesis to the phrase “all men are created equal.”

With that said, I was having a conversation with my good friend Nick Allison, an Army combat veteran and fellow Chaos Section contributor, the other day and mentioned my feelings of anger and visceral disgust for our current administration, so much so that I could not find a reason to celebrate our 250 years of independence, particularly as a veteran. I’ll end with Nick’s response:

“You know what? I think we can always find a reason to celebrate, regardless of the current occupant in the Oval Office, because there are always things and ideas and people worth celebrating. This is still a great country with great people and a wonderfully unique experiment in constitutional representative freedom. It gets messy and sometimes runs off the rails, but that’s kind of the whole point of the experiment: we’re a nation of people governing ourselves, which means it’s on us to correct course when things go sideways. Most of human history has been kings, monarchs and strongmen who never had to answer to anybody. Making it 250 years as a self-correcting experiment, messy and beautiful and stupid and wonderful all at once, is reason enough to celebrate. Don’t let one egotistical, narcissistic old man who will be out of office in a couple years, dead within ten, take that away from you.”

Mike Cone is a Marine Corps infantry veteran who served as a mortarman and forward observer in Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines. “Hollow Mockery” is his first piece for The Chaos Section. He lives on Long Island with his wife Cynthia.

A quotation from Frederick Douglass

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 July is yours, not mine.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

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A quotation from Frederick Douglass

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 July is yours, not mine.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #celebration #fourthofjuly #heritage #holiday #independenceday #inheritance #racism #slavery

A quotation from Frederick Douglass

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 July is yours, not mine.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #celebration #fourthofjuly #heritage #holiday #independenceday #inheritance #racism #slavery

A quotation from Frederick Douglass

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 July is yours, not mine.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #celebration #fourthofjuly #heritage #holiday #independenceday #inheritance #racism #slavery

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TV Ratings: ABC Scores Fourth of July Upset With Daylong Programming Block
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TV Ratings: ABC Scores Fourth of July Upset With Daylong Programming Block
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Jayne Mansfield's 1954 Fourth of July Portrait with Uncle Sam Top Hat

📰 Original title: Jayne Mansfield Posing With a Uncle Sam Top Hat to Celebrate the Fourth of July in 1954

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Sacramento fire officials issue $100K illegal fireworks citation

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https://www.europesays.com/africa/320634/ Minnesota mayor spent Fourth of July weekend in Somalia: report #America250 #FourthOfJuly #HassanSheikhMohamud #Minnesota #NadiaMohamed #Somalia #StLouisPark #travel #visit

Rachel described last night how the #NarcissistInChief tried to make America's 250th anniversary all about himself (and what a dismal unimpressive failure it turned out to be.)
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-secures-status-as-historic-laughing-stock-after-hogging-america-250-spotlight-2505791555736

#July4th #FourthOfJuly #SemiQuinCentenial

Rachel described last night how the #NarcissistInChief tried to make America's 250th anniversary all about himself (and what a dismal unimpressive failure it turned out to be.)
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-secures-status-as-historic-laughing-stock-after-hogging-america-250-spotlight-2505791555736

#July4th #FourthOfJuly #SemiQuinCentenial

Joe Tall spent the whole weekend in our yard, celebrating the USA's Semiquincentennial. #Semiquincentennial #celebrate #celebration #usacelebration #usacelebrations #fourthofjuly #patriotic #patriot #jingo #jingoism #jingoistic #holiday #holyday #lewistown #pennsyvania #centralpennsylvania #wackywavingarminflatable #inflatable #inflatables #wackyinflatables #zhuzh #decorate #decorations #summer #summertime #summersolstice #warm #warmweather #hot #hotweather #summerweather

Joe Tall spent the whole weekend in our yard, celebrating the USA's Semiquincentennial. #Semiquincentennial #celebrate #celebration #usacelebration #usacelebrations #fourthofjuly #patriotic #patriot #jingo #jingoism #jingoistic #holiday #holyday #lewistown #pennsyvania #centralpennsylvania #wackywavingarminflatable #inflatable #inflatables #wackyinflatables #zhuzh #decorate #decorations #summer #summertime #summersolstice #warm #warmweather #hot #hotweather #summerweather

Joe Tall spent the whole weekend in our yard, celebrating the USA's Semiquincentennial. #Semiquincentennial #celebrate #celebration #usacelebration #usacelebrations #fourthofjuly #patriotic #patriot #jingo #jingoism #jingoistic #holiday #holyday #lewistown #pennsyvania #centralpennsylvania #wackywavingarminflatable #inflatable #inflatables #wackyinflatables #zhuzh #decorate #decorations #summer #summertime #summersolstice #warm #warmweather #hot #hotweather #summerweather

Joe Tall spent the whole weekend in our yard, celebrating the USA's Semiquincentennial. #Semiquincentennial #celebrate #celebration #usacelebration #usacelebrations #fourthofjuly #patriotic #patriot #jingo #jingoism #jingoistic #holiday #holyday #lewistown #pennsyvania #centralpennsylvania #wackywavingarminflatable #inflatable #inflatables #wackyinflatables #zhuzh #decorate #decorations #summer #summertime #summersolstice #warm #warmweather #hot #hotweather #summerweather

More Than 400 Arrested After Fourth of July Disturbances in Newport Beach

📰 Original title: Fireworks, fights and cops on horses: 400 arrested at Fourth of July celebration in Newport Beach

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#incidents #newportbeach #fourthofjuly...

13-year-old arrested after Birmingham PD said he lit firework, threw it toward officers

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) …
#Birmingham #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #13-year-old #67thstreetsouth #Alabama #birminghampd #BirminghamPolice #BirminghamPoliceDepartment #Britain #centralalabama #firework #Fireworks #fourthofjuly #GreatBritain #investigation #JeffersonCounty #joppaavenue #juvenile #litfireworkandthrewitatpolice #myfoxal #wbrc
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1073248/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1073248/ 13-year-old arrested after Birmingham PD said he lit firework, threw it toward officers #13YearOld #67thStreetSouth #Alabama #Birmingham #BirminghamPd #BirminghamPolice #BirminghamPoliceDepartment #Britain #CentralAlabama #England #firework #Fireworks #FourthOfJuly #GreatBritain #investigation #JeffersonCounty #JoppaAvenue #juvenile #LitFireworkAndThrewItAtPolice #myfoxal #News #UK #UnitedKingdom #wbrc

https://www.europesays.com/news/49930/ Devastating aftermath of Newport Beach looting exposed #arrests #California #celebrations #FourthOfJuly #Headlines #Looting #Metro #minors #News #OrangeCounty #TikTok #TopStories #USNews

TV Ratings: Fourth of July Specials Boom for NBC, Fox News
#TV #TVNews #FourthofJuly #FoxNews #NBC #TVRatings

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/july-4-tv-ratings-nbc-fox-news-america-250-1236638804/

TV Ratings: Fourth of July Specials Boom for NBC, Fox News
#TV #TVNews #FourthofJuly #FoxNews #NBC #TVRatings

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/july-4-tv-ratings-nbc-fox-news-america-250-1236638804/

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9 Easy 4th of July Cocktails to Shake Up This Weekend

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://chilledmagazine.com/9-easy-4th-of-july-cocktails-to-shake-up-this-weekend/

9 Easy 4th of July Cocktails to Shake Up This Weekend

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https://www.europesays.com/ch/98207/ Lake Geneva cleanup continues after deadly 100 mph winds #100MphWinds #BoatCapsized #Como #darien #delavan #DemandMenuSubscribe #DownedPowerLines #EmailWeatherSearch #FourthOfJuly #Geneva #GenevaLake #LakeDelavan #LakeGeneva #MorningWatch #NationalWeatherService #news #page #PowerOutages #PrivacyNoticeTerm #PromotionsMemorialsAdvertise #SevereStorms #StateOfEmergency #StormCleanup #StormDamage #ThreeChildren #TomHausner #UseNextfre #WalworthCounty #WisconsinStorms #wisn

https://www.europesays.com/news/49682/ Newport Beach reveals staggering number busted for Fourth of July chaos — and what sparked it #arrests #California #FourthOfJuly #Headlines #Metro #minors #News #OrangeCounty #police #riot #TopStories #USNews

Iran Conflict: Food Sector’s 8 Biggest Casualties

Amid …
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https://www.newsbeep.com/628828/

https://www.europesays.com/iran/192034/ Iran Conflict: Food Sector’s 8 Biggest Casualties #1940sStyle #AmericanCulture #AmericanFlag #ArmedForces #Army #ArmySoldier #carrying #casualty #Dead #DeadBody #death #dusk #flag #FourthOfJuly #friendship #heroes #honor #Horizontal #infantry #Iran #Men #Military #nature #night #outdoors #paramedic #patriotism #people #respect #rifle #sand #storm #ThreePeople #USMilitary #UsVeteran'sDay #usa #Veteran #War #Wound

At this rate the Toxic Avenger is gonna wind up taking Trump out.

#WashingtonDC #ReflectingPool #FourthOfJuly

At this rate the Toxic Avenger is gonna wind up taking Trump out.

#WashingtonDC #ReflectingPool #FourthOfJuly

Trump's fireworks display last night was so excessive that you couldn't see the fireworks very well for all the smoke. The air became unsafe to breathe. And now? DC resisters are saying it covered the #ReflectingPool in ash and people are having to fish out the debris.

#FourthOfJuly #Trump

Trump's fireworks display last night was so excessive that you couldn't see the fireworks very well for all the smoke. The air became unsafe to breathe. And now? DC resisters are saying it covered the #ReflectingPool in ash and people are having to fish out the debris.

#FourthOfJuly #Trump