Saturday, July 4, 2015

A MOMENT OF SILENCE ?



"'What, to the American slave, is your 4th Of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."- Frederick Douglas.
 
The picture above was done by a amazing and talented artist ShiKeith called "a moment of silence". Done as a moment of silence in tribute to those lost in Charleston, and across America at the hands of racism that continues today and everyday. 
 

 

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