{"id":22118,"date":"2020-07-07T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/an-obscene-assault-on-frederick-douglass\/"},"modified":"2020-07-07T02:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T23:38:00","slug":"an-obscene-assault-on-frederick-douglass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/an-obscene-assault-on-frederick-douglass\/","title":{"rendered":"#An obscene assault on Frederick Douglass"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#An obscene assault on Frederick Douglass<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 6, 2020 |<\/span> 7:38pm <\/p>\n

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\n A statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass was ripped from its base in Rochester on the anniversary of one of his most famous speeches.<\/span>
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\n Even after toppling monuments to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the statue-smashers managed to reach a new height of insanity: Upstate vandals destroyed a statue of Frederick Douglass on the 168th anniversary of his best-known anti-slavery speech.<\/p>\n

Maybe that was the point: Douglass\u2019 speech extolled the promise of America outlined in the Declaration of Independence, making him a ripe target for radicals who believe the nation was founded with a stain of racism it can never remove.<\/p>\n

Rochester police on Sunday found the shattered statue at the Genesee River gorge, 50 feet from its empty pedestal at Kelsey\u2019s Landing \u2014 a stopping-point on the Underground Railroad where Douglass and Harriet Tubman, both former slaves, helped others gain their freedom.<\/p>\n

It was one of many Douglass monuments erected in the city two years ago, in remembrance of his 200th birthday. Douglass is buried in Rochester, where he gave one of his most eloquent speeches, \u201cWhat to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?\u201d on July 5, 1852.<\/p>\n

We saw quite a few social<\/a>-media posts citing that speech over the weekend \u2014 but how many posters read beyond its title or the famous lines \u201cThis Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn\u201d?<\/p>\n

Douglass, who in 1838 bravely escaped the slavery into which he\u2019d been born in Maryland, had come to change his mind about the country\u2019s founding documents, eventually arguing \u2014 against some fellow abolitionists \u2014 that they were vital fodder for the cause.<\/p>\n

The Declaration contained \u201cgreat principles of political freedom and of natural justice,\u201d he noted. Its signers were \u201cbrave\u201d and \u201cgreat\u201d men whose work carried the seeds of slavery\u2019s destruction.
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\nMore, he declared, \u201cthe Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those are fighting words to the warriors of the 1619 Project, the New York Times series<\/a> that falsely claims the United States was founded primarily to promote slavery \u2014 lies that clearly animate today\u2019s statue-smashers.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowledge is the pathway from slavery to freedom,\u201d Douglass once said. Those who claim to share his fight might want to learn a little about the man himself \u2014 and why he was a passionate defender of so much that they seek to destroy.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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