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(1) This speech was given in 1852, before the Civil War, when the abomination of slavery still existed. Thanks to Douglass and so many other heroes, we ended that grotesque evil and have made enormous strides to protecting the civil rights of everybody.
(2) Douglass was not anti-American; he was, rightly and passionately, anti-slavery. Indeed, he concluded the speech as follows:
“Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented, of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country.
“There are forces in operation, which must inevitably, work the downfall of slavery. ‘The arm of the Lord is not shortened,’ and the doom of slavery is certain.
“I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from ‘the Declaration of Independence,’ the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age.”
Let me encourage everyone, READ THE ENTIRE SPEECH; it is powerful, inspirational, and historically important in bending the arc of history towards justice: https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2945
Sorry. You all don’t get to hijack Frederick Douglass while suppressing the minority franchise all over the country.
Unlike conservatives.
You were doing OK until you rhetorically implied Kap is anti-American. Ironically *you* don’t see the parallel between how pro slavery ppl received Douglas’s speech and how you are treating Kap.
Probably not anti American. But now can you guess how he felt about the people who kept slavery going?
Kaepernick is not anti-American either. Just wants to see his country that he loves do better. Quit making uneducated insinuations.
He is going about it the wrong way if Kaepernick wants to make world better. He should not be working on dividing people but rather uniting them. Privilege man Making millions on a shoe company that pays people 20 cents an hour in 3rd world countries Maybe he should start there
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