Colin Kaepernick Tweets Frederick Douglass: “This Fourth of July Is Yours, Not Mine..”
On the morning of the 4th of July, Colin Kaepernick, a man who lives what most call the “American dream” as a multi-millionaire and former 49ers football player, shared a minute-long video filled with graphic images of police brutality, slavery, KKK, and lynchings. The video features a portion of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.”
Kaepernick also quoted Douglass, “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.”
“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.”
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) July 4, 2019
- Frederick Douglass pic.twitter.com/IWLujGCJHn
Kaepernick’s tweet has garnered over 100,000 likes and the video was viewed over 1.7 million times. Many people replied to Kaepernick’s tweet with excellent points.
— Montoya (@meVitelio) July 4, 2019
— sara⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@saraHobbit2) July 4, 2019
Did Colin read to the end?
— John Gage (@johnrobertgage) July 4, 2019
Douglass praises the Constitution as a “Glorious liberty document” and says he draws hope from the Declaration, its principles, and the genius of our institutions.
But alas, we need to dump on the flag that represents these.https://t.co/iKjB6TsMgW
“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.”
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) July 4, 2019
- Frederick Douglass pic.twitter.com/IWLujGCJHn
better men than you have been carried and buried into that flag. No place in the history of man has allowed people to realize their potential like America. We had our Dark Times but it is only racist people like you holding us back. God Bless America! pic.twitter.com/aRM3JYdRDR
— k pykh (@PykhK) July 4, 2019
Pretty cool that you live in a country where you’re both entitled to the earnings of your own work and also allowed to criticize your government without fear of legal punishment
— Dirty Randy (@durandysch) July 4, 2019
The best suggestion is the one that came from Aaron Riley:
Feel free to leave
— Aaron Riley (@Aaron_rly) July 4, 2019
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