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Drednerd Hippy
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Instead of just partying on the #4thofJuly , why not learn some more about your the #USA for example James Earl Jones reading #FrederickDouglass' What to the American Slave is the #FourthOfJuly ? via @democracynow
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Or for at least a little while during the #4thofJuly cookout play an episode or two of the @PeabodyAwards winning @uncivilshow #podcast, the untold #history of the #AmericanCivilWar gimletmedia.com/shows/uncivil by @catchatweetdown & @JackHitt via @Gimletmedia
Or learn a little about the construction of our racial caste system that started long before the #FourthOfJuly was a holiday in @SceneOnRadio's #podcast series "Seeing White" sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/ @catchatweetdown @CDSDuke #race #racism #history
Maybe #history isn't your bag, listen 2 speculative futurism about how we could fall into a 2nd #AmericanCivilWar listen 2 an episode or 2 of It Could @HappenHerePod #podcast by @IwriteOK. Understand what needs to happen to keep celebrating the #4thofJuly itcouldhappenherepod.com
And don't just listen via your earbuds or earpods, put it one of these selections on the speakers you're using to play music for all your guests this #FouthOfJuly
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One of the truly great things about America is that it was in fact founded by virulently racist white men, but those racist white men created a document in the Constitution that could not exist simultaneously with either state-supported enslavement or Jim Crow.
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Essential reading for the day: Frederick Douglass' 1852 speech "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" en.wikisource.org/wiki/What_to_t…
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Douglass specifically was excoriating slavery, but the words certainly carry weight when it comes to America's hatred and crimes against humanity today.
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