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#OTD in 1852 Frederick Douglass recited "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" before the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society at Corinthian Hall. Douglass attacked slavery by highlighting how white Americans could celebrate freedom while enslaving others. 
Douglass referenced the Bible, Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution to argue that as long as slavery existed that Independence Day would be a day of mourning for African Americans, especially the enslaved.
He proclaimed "...justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
The @nytimes review of a new book on the Star Spangled Banner is admiring while @washingntonpost is more skeptical about F.S. Key than the author. What the reviews don’t quite capture is impact of the Banner on the politics of slavery. #4THJULY thread.
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1/In 1833 President Andrew Jackson appointed Key to be District Attorney for the City of Washington. Jackson wanted to deploy Key’s fame and liberal reputation in service of enforcing the slavery system. An ambitious man, Key obliged. #4THJULY
2/In 1834, Key prosecuted Benjamin Lundy, a courageous itinerant editor, who brought his antislavery publication to Washington DC. Lundy was actually acquitted of “seditious libel” but had to leave town under the threat of violence from the slavers. #4THJULY
“ÌLú Àjé” – A Small Town In Oyo State Known As The Town Of Witches And How The Name Was Derived
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On your journey to Oyo, right below Fiditi, there is a little...
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On your journey to Oyo, right below Fiditi, there is a little town named “Ilu Aje.” Which basically translates to “Witch Town.” Ilu Aje is a rather significant rural hamlet with huge fields located between the cities of Ilora and Jobele in Oyo State’s Afijio
Local Government Area. “Ilu Aje” literally means “a town of fortune in sales or business transactions.”
However, history bestowed upon it the strange homophonic appellation of “Ilu Aje” (Town of Witches) as a result of the intervention of Akinyolu, a herbalist
However, history bestowed upon it the strange homophonic appellation of “Ilu Aje” (Town of Witches) as a result of the intervention of Akinyolu, a herbalist
As Americans celebrate #4thOfJuly, here's 10 essential episodes of Dangerous Dogma w/ @BrianKaylor for helping U.S. Christians think about the relationship between faith & nation. The first features @kkdumez talking about, "Jesus and John Wayne." 1/10
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Our second Dangerous Dogma episode for the #4thOfJuly was @BrianKaylor's discussion with @AmandaTylerBJC of @BJContheHill about #ChristianNationalism and the #Jan6thInsurrection. 2/10
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The third episode in our #4THJULY #PodcastRecommendations is @americansunited' @rachelklaser talking with @BrianKaylor about protecting religious liberty in #America for everyone. 3/10
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Passing of Swami Vivekananda - a *thread*
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In his youth, while as a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, Narendranath had got a taste of Nirvikalpa Samadhi. When it was over, his Master had said, "This is your mango, Look! I lock it in my box.
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In his youth, while as a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, Narendranath had got a taste of Nirvikalpa Samadhi. When it was over, his Master had said, "This is your mango, Look! I lock it in my box.
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You shall taste it once more, when your work in finished." Sri Ramakrishna had made one more prophecy about Naren - that when he should know who and what he was, he would refuse to remain a moment longer in the body.
You shall taste it once more, when your work in finished." Sri Ramakrishna had made one more prophecy about Naren - that when he should know who and what he was, he would refuse to remain a moment longer in the body.
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Years had passed. It was the summer of 1898. Vivekananda was well renowned in the world by then. He happened to visit the Amarnath Cave with his disciples. On returning from the cave of Amarnath, he had told that he had received the grace of Amar Nath -
Years had passed. It was the summer of 1898. Vivekananda was well renowned in the world by then. He happened to visit the Amarnath Cave with his disciples. On returning from the cave of Amarnath, he had told that he had received the grace of Amar Nath -
1/ the #4thJuly , "independence" and the nation-state (collecting input from descendants of non-European invaders):
The 4th of July and the African-American population (the "involuntary immigrants")
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The 4th of July and the African-American population (the "involuntary immigrants")
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2/ The #4thJuly and Indigenous populations (you know, the ones that actually owned the whole land known as the "New World").
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The state legislature's assertion of a right to prevent an an abortion is little different from the state legislator's assertion of a right to force one. It's either your body or theirs. It's noteworthy that @realDonaldTrump's new pal Kim forces abortions. #BlockTheTryrant.
Real Constitutional question is who makes these decisions? While the @GOP claims to be for freedom, including freedom of religion. in practice the radical right is for less freedom, lack of personal autonomy, right of association and imposition state imposed hate-filled heretical
perversion of Christianity that shuns the oppressed and would have cast Jesus out when he fled Herod. Men too should realize that the loss of rights reinforced by SCOTU in Loving, Grizwald & Roe will be lost to them too: Rights not derived from the power of state legislatures.
