Saturday, December 27, 2014

IN THINKING OF AMERICA

This is an extract of a letter from Frederick Douglass to William Lloyd Garrison.
In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky, her grand old woods, her fertile fields, her beautiful rivers, her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy is soon turned to mourning. When I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slaveholding, robbery and wrong,— when I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten, and that her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing, and led to reproach myself that any thing could fall from my lips in praise of such a land. America will not allow her children to love her. She seems bent on compelling those who would be her warmest friends, to be her worst enemies. May God give her repentance before it is too late, is the ardent prayer of my heart. I will continue to pray, labor and wait, believing that she cannot always be insensible to the dictates of justice, or deaf to the voice of humanity.

[source : Frederick Douglass, Letter to William Lloyd Garrison, 1st January 1846]

President Andrew Jackson was a treacherous, slaveholding scumbag who awarded the Rothschilds the position of agents of the USA in Europe.

But the above extract from the letter also highlights what America is doing today:
compelling those who would be her warmest friends, to be her worst enemies. May God give her repentance before it is too late, is the ardent prayer of my heart. I will continue to pray, labor and wait, believing that she cannot always be insensible to the dictates of justice, or deaf to the voice of humanity.

Perhaps President Obama, if he can be arsed to get off the golf course, will take note of these powerful and prophetic words from one of the most famous and influential campaigners against slavery in America.



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