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Open Thread — Sunday morning -- July 7, 2019.
The greatest Fourth of July speech of all time? No, certainly not the one delivered this week by Trump. Professors Willilam Green, Augsburg University, and Jason Sole, Hamline Univesity, discuss in a Minnpost Sketchbook by Jim Walsh why Frederick Douglass’ speech ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’ still resonates 167 years later.
The deaths three years ago of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile on July 5 and 6, are among the reasons why Sole believes we are “in the same place” as when Douglass gave his speech.
“We’re still in slavery, we just don’t like using that because we say, ‘Oh we had a black president, we’ve got a black mayor of St. Paul, there’s a black person over here.’ But it’s the same system that’s built on white supremacy. You might tinker with it here and there, but it’s the same. If we really want to get to equity, we need to be reading this speech every day and comparing from then to now, just constantly.”
What are your thoughts on the state of liberty and justice for all on this July 4th weekend?
Several DKOS diaries over the last few weeks on Minnesota-related topics:
We are less than two weeks away from our next monthly meetup of the Twin Cities Kossacks. Here are the details:
- The Twin Cities Kossacks will meet at 11 a.m, Saturday, July 20 at Turtle Bread, 4762 Chicago Ave. So., Minneapolis (map here). Please note, there are two Turtle Bread locations, this is the one by the old Parkway Theater.
Can you make it? It’s not too early to post your RSVPs, even if you’re a maybe.
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