4TH Of July address

In 1852 Fred­er­ick Dou­glass was asked to speak in cel­e­bra­tion of the

4^th of July

Ded­i­cated to Dr. Robert Austin Somerville R.I.P.

Fred­er­ick Dou­glass once said that power con­cedes noth­ing with­out a strug­gle. Brown peo­ple of all shades have been strug­gling for over 300 years and power has not con­ceded much at that time. The prob­lem with the United States is not the gov­ern­ment as much is it is the people’s unwill­ing­ness to think! When exit­ing the con­sti­tu­tional con­ven­tion a woman asked Ben­jamin Franklin “What have you giv­ing us?” He replied, “A repub­lic if you can keep it!” Of cause he was not refer­ring to all of the peo­ple on this land at the time, how­ever, his word has some mean­ing for all of the peo­ple now. The pow­ers that be, being unable to return to their sav­age way with­out world ridicule, must put up an air of respectabil­ity. The main point that I would like to make is what Franklin was talk­ing about was the inabil­ity of the cit­i­zens to con­tinue to think. Think­ing cit­i­zens are no longer the norm. They have made many of us think that we are the ser­vant of the gov­ern­ment and the gov­ern­ment is the mas­ter. Many will say “that is not so!” but still insist that the only two things one must do in life are pay­ing taxes and die, and pay those taxes to an entity that is not even a part of the gov­ern­ment that should right­fully be the ser­vant of, but is in fact (by an unwill­ing­ness to think) the mas­ter. It’s has got­ten so bad that even those who call them­selves “White” are hav­ing issues with their government.

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