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Of course this is taken out of context and Douglas went on to say how much he loved America.
Kaepernick tweets Frederick Douglass speech: “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine”
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7/5/2019 8:32:25 AM
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On Thursday morning, former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick shared a video on Twitter featuring quotes from Frederick Douglass’ famous July 5, 1852 speech delivered in Rochester, New York. Douglass, who was born into slavery, had been asked to speak on July 4 but declined, and his speech explains why, Michael Nowels of Bayareanewsgroup reports.
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” Douglass asked in his hour-plus speech deriding the celebration of freedom when so many in America were not free.
The video on Kaepernick’s timeline shows drawings of lynchings, the Ku Klux Klan and more recent instances of police brutality.
“There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour,” Kaepernick wrote, quoting Douglass.
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“What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? This Fourth of July is yours, not mine…There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.”
- Frederick Douglass
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Of course this is taken out of context and Douglas went on to say how much he loved America.
Kaepernick tweets Frederick Douglass speech: “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine”
Jul
5
7/5/2019 8:32:25 AM
|More
On Thursday morning, former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick shared a video on Twitter featuring quotes from Frederick Douglass’ famous July 5, 1852 speech delivered in Rochester, New York. Douglass, who was born into slavery, had been asked to speak on July 4 but declined, and his speech explains why, Michael Nowels of Bayareanewsgroup reports.
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” Douglass asked in his hour-plus speech deriding the celebration of freedom when so many in America were not free.
The video on Kaepernick’s timeline shows drawings of lynchings, the Ku Klux Klan and more recent instances of police brutality.
“There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour,” Kaepernick wrote, quoting Douglass.
Colin Kaepernick
✔
@Kaepernick7
“What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? This Fourth of July is yours, not mine…There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.”
- Frederick Douglass
164K
1:03 PM - Jul 4, 2019
84.4K people are talking about this
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