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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.
#250thAnniversary #AmericanHistory #authoritarianism #civilLiberties #FourthOfJuly #FrederickDouglass #IndependenceDay #JapaneseInternment #NativeAmericanHistory #PosseComitatusAct #racialEquality #revisionistHistory #trump #Veterans -
How long does it take to execute a child in the United States of America?
In 1944, the state of South Carolina needed only 83 days to arrest a 14-year-old Black boy named George Stinney Jr. and then put him to death.
#GeorgeStinneyJr #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #blackamericanhistory #blackhistorymatters #racialequity #racialbias #racialequality #SystemicRacism #CriminalJustice #JuvenileJustice #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #PostConviction #JusticeSystem
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"#LetitiaJames criminally charged in #Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals"
A number of prominent #blackwomen are targeted by Trump's ugly vindictiveness
Know what #racialEquality would look like in the #USA?
If James wrote 20 ALL CAP #socialMedia screeds at 3 AM, like Trump, in response
And it didn't count against her
She would never, she's not a #manchild
It makes you think
About #humiliation, #anger, #whitePrivilege, being #black in #America
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If you've not seen my latest video "End Racisl Profiling", I'd be very greatful if you could check it out. There is a distrubing rise in racism and racial profiling and it needs to be called out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNquZizJ2d0
#RacialProfiling #Rasicm #Bigotry #Equality #RacialEquality #Ireland
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Things that won't change even now when solidarity matters more than ever.
Why white & black queers don’t mix
#BlackMastodon #LGBTQ #Trans #RacialEquality
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"Linton [Kwesi Johnson] was very adamant that [Blair Peach] should be remembered by our community, because he lost his life in the struggle for ... racial equality. And he wasn't even British. He was a schoolteacher that came from New Zealand to teach young kids at school, and then a policeman hit him in the head on this march, and killed him ... It was despicable"
#DennisBovell, 2025
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"But the organizations leading the charge for civil rights and disability inclusion say they’re not backing down." #diversity #dei #deia #socialjustice #racialequality #lgbt #lgbtq #blacklivesmatter #justice #resist #resistance
Civil rights leaders vow to fight Donald Trump’s ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ assault on DEI (exclusive)
https://www.advocate.com/news/civil-rights-trump-dei
> “Donald Trump and his administration are clearly confused about American values,” NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson told The Advocate.
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"Why is there not state of emergency in the social work field?! I feel like regardless of these larger orgs, WE social workers need to prepare. Stay ready so we don’t have to get ready."
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFYl1ntyNo4/
#Socialwork #RadicalSocialwork #Socialworkers #Socialworker #NASW #ASWB #StateOfEmergency #SystemsChange #Humanrights #Inclusion #Accessability #InvisibleDisabilityRights #DisabilityVoice #RacialEquality #PublicHealth #Grief #Humanrights #Food #HealthCare #USPol #MAGA #Project2025
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Continued thread of interests 🧵
#Recovery #RecoveryDharma #RecoveryPosse #LonelinessCorps #SitTogether #Prayer #Drawing #Writing #VisualThinking #WriteToThink #Journal #BulletJournal #SystemsChange #Humanrights #Inclusion #Accessability #InvisibleDisabilityRights #DisabilityVoice #RacialEquality #PublicHealth #Grief #Hospice #Humanrights #Food #Health #Fasting #MovementI'll continue to post interest hashtags in this thread.
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JOHN DAVID RHEINALLT JONES (1884 - 1953), philanthropist, founder and Director of the South African Institute of Race Relations
'He is referred to in African Studies (5 December 1953) as pioneering the idea of studying African life and institutions as an academic discipline. With the assistance of his wife and Professor Alfred Hoernlé, he emphasised the need to establish a department of Bantu studies within the university. That vision was realised. It was Rheinallt Jones who founded the journal Bantu Studies in October 1921 and he became its editor. He lectured on native law in the department of Bantu studies from 1929 and was a guest lecturer on racial relations. In 1937 he was chosen as the first representative of the Africans of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State in the South African parliament.' -- Gwilym Arthur Jones
https://biography.wales/article/s2-JONE-RHE-1884
Darlun/Image: https://www.sahistory.org.za/.../john-david-rheinallt-jones
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From 05 Mar: Pilot projects will help stop the overreporting of children of color to child welfare in Michigan - https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/03/04/overreporting-child-abuse-children-of-color-michigan-bar-association/72685603007/ #uspol #michigan #racialequality
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Black Music Action Coalition Calls For Action From Joe Biden
https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/765620-black-music-action-coalition-joe-biden
> The #BMAC is calling on Joe #Biden to use his executive authority to pass #RacialEquality and #ReparativeJustice legislation
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Searchin' the #livestream tag hoping to find some fellow #youtube / #twitch / (ugh) #instagram / (ughhhh) #tiktok #streamer frens. My name is Cleo, I do #vlog s and #interview s about #feminism , #queer rights, #racialEquality , anit- #capitalism , and other #leftist issues as Topless Topics,
and #videoGame and other #nerd content as CeriGotGame.I can't be the only streamer out there who uses something besides the mainstream platforms XD Hit me up! Let's co-stream together sometime!
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We are hosting the #EASST4S2024 open panel Public Participation and Health Equality in Future Biobanking
Link: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14203
This is where art, bioscience and sociology meet!
Send us your ideas by 12 Feb. We welcome research papers, visual and interactive exhibits.
#biobank #HealthInequalities #BAME #PublicEngagment #sciencecommunication #ethnicminority #RacialEquality
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Studies show employees prefer businesses taking clear stances on social issues. https://www.witn.com/2023/12/06/studies-show-employees-prefer-businesses-taking-clear-stances-social-isuues/ #LGBTQI #RacialEquality #RacialJustice #Equality #WomensRights #TransRights #HumanRights #EqualPayForEqualWork
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The Color of Space: Stories of Inspiration from Black NASA Astronauts (2022)
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Some swinging #emancipation tunes to brighten up your Friday: Jamais Kolonga, by Grand Kallé & L'African Jazz, about the 'first ever' display of #RacialEquality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4LBVMTQulU
The song tells the story of Jean Lema, nicknamed Jamais Kollonga, or: "never defeated", the first black Congolese man to dance with a white woman.
The story is regaled by David Van Reybrouck in his history of #Congo, and repeated at https://planetilunga.com/2013/07/11/the-story-behind-jamais-kolonga/
The quote that follows is grabbed from that website:
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This isn't just about #racialequality; they're targeting anyone who isn't a #white #Christian #male, extending to #suppressing #WomensRights, #LGBTQRights, and #disenfranchising other #marginalizedcommunities. This is a multi-layered #attack on #equality for all.
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And if you want to know more about me (Cleo) specifically, I'm the creator of #ToplessTopics, a #videoSeries featuring #socialCommentary and #interviews about #freethenipple #toplessEquality, #feminism, #sexwork decriminalization, #normalizeNudity, #houseless advocacy, #racialEquality , #mentalHealth, #bodyPositivity, and many other #progressive issues. 😃
You can find most of my content at https://www.toplesstopics.org (at least the videos I've since reuploaded to Peertube, since they've been banned from everywhere else for "the heinous, unforgiveable sin of nonsexual female nipples" 😏 ) and here are my Mastodon accounts:
Topless Topics-related-only posts:
@[email protected]My main account that I also post personal thoughts to:
@[email protected]
