I understand where you are coming from but seeing that we were never made free in particular on that day, we still have a history filled with black heroes who stood fought and died for us maybe we could get days to celebrate their lives, birthdays, or memory of how they died for us
"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their lies and cultures will never be understood, let alone believe, by the masses of the people" Plato
I have been saying this for years. I didn't know that this speech existed, but I don't celebrate the 4th of July as Independence day I celebrate the 1st of January as Independence day because this is the day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, January 1, 1863.
Miss Danna you seem to want people to move on and in your words you don't seem to have any feeling for those who built the country you love for free...Danna if you were raped,sold and mistreated for the majority of your life..and your abuser stopped,do you think you would just pick yourself up and live a normal life..? would you want help,justice or at least sympathy...?or would it be ok to ingnore you and treat you as a second class citizen (which has happened in living memory). Maybe the reason some people haven't moved on is because of hypocrites like you and their lack of human feelings.
@mark lee I can't seem to reply to you, but Stanley Nelson has made a documentary called Becoming Frederick Douglass. I found a bunch of links to Douglass's work (including this video) and analysis thereof reading a review.
Okay, we will once you relinquish domination and control of the areas of human activity: economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, war, and health.
salaam1st And I will play Him, My name is Frederick Jones, as a matter of fact I will be putting on a show about Him William Still and Few other Great and Marvelous Black Leaders on tomorrow, for the City of Dallas Texas
"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety." "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." "I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress." - Frederick Douglass
@@MichaelScreamMachineEvans When did the Republican Party sell us out? Blacks left the Republican Party first in the 1930s when racist FDR waved the New Deal in front of them. Even though he actively discriminated against black workers and ensured they did not benefit from the New Deal, blacks voted for him anyway. The second exodus came in the 1960s when even more racist LBJ offered blacks the War on Poverty as welfare entitlements. The same year Barry Goldwater, Mr Conservative, voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act for constitutional reasons. We know Goldwater wasn't racist based on his actions and the comments of MLK. Overwhelmingly, Republicans outvoted Democrats in every civil rights issue. Unfortunately, blacks don't read so we are easily duped by liberal media. If you read the entirety of this speech, you will see Frederick Douglass supported America and the Constitution. He believed in the values and the principles the founders wrote in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, however he saw where America had not fulfilled its obligations. Douglass speech What the Black Man Wants" provides insight to what Douglass thought about government assistance. Every issue the Republican Party supports today on its platform, Douglass supported. For example, school choice, 2d amendment, pro-life, limited power of government, and respect for the constitution.
@@recardogrady1326 1866... Mississippi GOP Radical Republicants 1867 1885- 2019 We can go more in depth but if you don't know the significance of the years listed above them you don't know history Our Good Liberal Friends Sold Us out End of reconstruction
I don't know about the rest of you but as far back as my family goes in the US, we have never owned slaves, I don't own slaves. None of the people of color that I know are slaves and neither were their parents, grandparents or great grandparents. So when is everyone going to move on and let go that horrible part of our history? It is like a pity party and you get a little tired of it, don't you? I know I do. Do not tear down our country's flag because some see it as part of a history their ancestors suffered in. My ancestors suffered too fighting a war for those Southern states to remain in the United States and to stop slavery, my ancestors fought for slaves to be free. Everyone has their family history to bear but we don't relive your ancestors suffering over a hundred years later unless you want sympathy and something for it. Leave the American flag alone because people that are represented by that flag and their ancestors fought for freedom in this country, everyone's freedom. It is time to stop the hate and bitterness. We are all together in this country and if we don't start acting like it, we will all, lose all our freedoms.
You may know about slavery but there's new generations of young people learning about life that don't know about horrible events in the past. People need to learn about the Holocaust, different genocides,and slavery so that it does not happen again. It's important to be empathetic and understand, so we can care for others. History will repeat itself if we ignore the past.
Danna Olson Well, based on just your first sentence alone, you do not know ME. Black people will *NEVER* forget 300 years of chattel slavery that our ancestors endured - *never*. So either deal with us continuing to bring it up or find another country without such a wicked history in which to live.
Danna Olson Once the U.S. moves on from hailing George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, etc. as heroes with extraordinary character (even pushing that fabrication about Washington never telling a lie to prove how virtuous he was to children in every elementary school). Not to mention Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, etc. in other corners of the country. Once people realize that the practices that existed all the way into the 1960s were slavery in all but name. And once people can recognize the lasting impact those practices still have, with many blacks not being able to get a real education nor accumulate wealth to pass down to the next generation until, again, the 1960s. As well as the laws that are still in place from those times that affect black communities today. And I'm not someone who takes pieces of cloth very seriously, but if we "let go" the slavery part of history, maybe we should also let go of flags that were designed in the 19th century. But I agree: time to stop the hate and bitterness by moving on from all of those American/Confederate heroes, laws designed to keep freed slaves in another form of bondage, and archaic flags.. and then we can move the slavery issue to the past.
Many people in very recent times have been terribly hurt by this country, many having their country destroyed, with no other place to live they come here to try and make a better life. The US military didn't fight for our freedoms, I believe you meant the rich and their corporations. You need to stop lying. The pain and shock that my father and grandfather experienced has left a psychological scar that has carried on. I can see it but couldn't put a finger on it till I was older. We lost enormous land, family torn apart and our homeland exploited. You sit back in your safe, boring suburb and have the nerve to call our pain a "pitty party!?" Shame on you!!! Like Fredrick Douglas said "this shows the immeasurable distance between you and I.
White people are the ones who are not letting it go though. That's what's this is all about. Blacks are trying to move on, start having some accountability for once.
The words of Frederick Douglass still ring with relivance today four July 2024
People need to read the *entire* speech. This was just a short excerpt. Certainly one of the greatest speeches in U.S. history.
Mr Douglass was such a great man. I can't wait for a proper movie to be made about him.
+morpheousx Ever seen 12 years a slave?
Yes!!! I studied with my high school students. He beat his slave master.
That was powerful!! And so true! So deep!!
His voice gave me goosebumps. Powerful
So true, we need to start celebrating Juneteenth!!
Blaxsaidwhat? Exactly.
I understand where you are coming from but seeing that we were never made free in particular on that day, we still have a history filled with black heroes who stood fought and died for us maybe we could get days to celebrate their lives, birthdays, or memory of how they died for us
I _no longer_ work on *June 19th...*
i swapped it with _July 4th._
🔥🔥
It really ended Dec 6th.
Thank you DN.
Makes as much sense now as it did then.
Fredrick Douglass speech amazing James earl Jones rendition powerful!
Thank you sir👏🏼
Still relevant after all these years.
Unfortunately, yes.
😕
Yes, I know. I am free in Christ Jesus. The Black Jesus, not the fake one the whole world is following.
Derek Burress Freedom is not real.
This Canadian Agrees.
Said the non-melanated man. That's like a fat man telling those that are starving that there is no more famine.
Great & true words. Thank you.
"Those who are able to see beyond
the shadows and lies of their lies
and cultures will never be understood,
let alone believe,
by the masses of the people"
Plato
That is so right
I have been saying this for years. I didn't know that this speech existed, but I don't celebrate the 4th of July as Independence day I celebrate the 1st of January as Independence day because this is the day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, January 1, 1863.
The force is strong with this one...
So ironic of what is going on today
Miss Danna you seem to want people to move on and in your words you don't seem to have any feeling for those who built the country you love for free...Danna if you were raped,sold and mistreated for the majority of your life..and your abuser stopped,do you think you would just pick yourself up
and live a normal life..? would you want help,justice or at least sympathy...?or would it be ok to ingnore you and treat you as a second class citizen (which has happened in living memory).
Maybe the reason some people haven't moved on is because of hypocrites like you and their lack of human feelings.
@mark lee I can't seem to reply to you, but Stanley Nelson has made a documentary called Becoming Frederick Douglass. I found a bunch of links to Douglass's work (including this video) and analysis thereof reading a review.
First we break down the walls that devide us, then together we break down the walls around all of us. TRUTH JUSTICE PEACE.
Okay, we will once you relinquish domination and control of the areas of human activity: economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, war, and health.
Today July 4th is just about sales, fireworks and bbq
smply amzng It's foolery and most of us colored people go right ahead and celebrate right into the deception
I wish that someone would make a movie about him
salaam1st And I will play Him, My name is Frederick Jones, as a matter of fact I will be putting on a show about Him William Still and Few other Great and Marvelous Black Leaders on tomorrow, for the City of Dallas Texas
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thanks....intelligent articulation, yet 100yrs later still the same pretentious bias...
You need to learn how to construct better titles for your youtube videos.
"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety."
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Yeah that's before they sold us out the first time....
@@MichaelScreamMachineEvans When did the Republican Party sell us out? Blacks left the Republican Party first in the 1930s when racist FDR waved the New Deal in front of them. Even though he actively discriminated against black workers and ensured they did not benefit from the New Deal, blacks voted for him anyway. The second exodus came in the 1960s when even more racist LBJ offered blacks the War on Poverty as welfare entitlements. The same year Barry Goldwater, Mr Conservative, voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act for constitutional reasons. We know Goldwater wasn't racist based on his actions and the comments of MLK. Overwhelmingly, Republicans outvoted Democrats in every civil rights issue. Unfortunately, blacks don't read so we are easily duped by liberal media. If you read the entirety of this speech, you will see Frederick Douglass supported America and the Constitution. He believed in the values and the principles the founders wrote in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, however he saw where America had not fulfilled its obligations. Douglass speech What the Black Man Wants" provides insight to what Douglass thought about government assistance. Every issue the Republican Party supports today on its platform, Douglass supported. For example, school choice, 2d amendment, pro-life, limited power of government, and respect for the constitution.
@@recardogrady1326 1866... Mississippi GOP Radical Republicants 1867
1885- 2019
We can go more in depth but if you don't know the significance of the years listed above them you don't know history
Our Good Liberal Friends Sold Us out
End of reconstruction
I _no longer_ work on *June 19th...*
i swapped it with _July 4th._
🔥🔥
T_jackson211
His father was pink.
And that matters? Black is black; those of us with sense know our people.
I don't know about the rest of you but as far back as my family goes in the US, we have never owned slaves, I don't own slaves. None of the people of color that I know are slaves and neither were their parents, grandparents or great grandparents. So when is everyone going to move on and let go that horrible part of our history? It is like a pity party and you get a little tired of it, don't you? I know I do. Do not tear down our country's flag because some see it as part of a history their ancestors suffered in. My ancestors suffered too fighting a war for those Southern states to remain in the United States and to stop slavery, my ancestors fought for slaves to be free. Everyone has their family history to bear but we don't relive your ancestors suffering over a hundred years later unless you want sympathy and something for it. Leave the American flag alone because people that are represented by that flag and their ancestors fought for freedom in this country, everyone's freedom. It is time to stop the hate and bitterness. We are all together in this country and if we don't start acting like it, we will all, lose all our freedoms.
You may know about slavery but there's new generations of young people learning about life that don't know about horrible events in the past. People need to learn about the Holocaust, different genocides,and slavery so that it does not happen again. It's important to be empathetic and understand, so we can care for others. History will repeat itself if we ignore the past.
Danna Olson Well, based on just your first sentence alone, you do not know ME.
Black people will *NEVER* forget 300 years of chattel slavery that our ancestors endured - *never*. So either deal with us continuing to bring it up or find another country without such a wicked history in which to live.
Danna Olson Once the U.S. moves on from hailing George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, etc. as heroes with extraordinary character (even pushing that fabrication about Washington never telling a lie to prove how virtuous he was to children in every elementary school). Not to mention Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, etc. in other corners of the country. Once people realize that the practices that existed all the way into the 1960s were slavery in all but name. And once people can recognize the lasting impact those practices still have, with many blacks not being able to get a real education nor accumulate wealth to pass down to the next generation until, again, the 1960s. As well as the laws that are still in place from those times that affect black communities today. And I'm not someone who takes pieces of cloth very seriously, but if we "let go" the slavery part of history, maybe we should also let go of flags that were designed in the 19th century. But I agree: time to stop the hate and bitterness by moving on from all of those American/Confederate heroes, laws designed to keep freed slaves in another form of bondage, and archaic flags.. and then we can move the slavery issue to the past.
Many people in very recent times have been terribly hurt by this country, many having their country destroyed, with no other place to live they come here to try and make a better life. The US military didn't fight for our freedoms, I believe you meant the rich and their corporations. You need to stop lying.
The pain and shock that my father and grandfather experienced has left a psychological scar that has carried on. I can see it but couldn't put a finger on it till I was older. We lost enormous land, family torn apart and our homeland exploited.
You sit back in your safe, boring suburb and have the nerve to call our pain a "pitty party!?"
Shame on you!!!
Like Fredrick Douglas said "this shows the immeasurable distance between you and I.
White people are the ones who are not letting it go though. That's what's this is all about. Blacks are trying to move on, start having some accountability for once.
Give me a break.
STFU! FUCK the Amerikkklan rag!
Jack Mehoff go ahead and break