ABOUT TRYING TO BE COOL

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattre

EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY

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ABOUT TRYING TO BE COOL

THE LONGER THEY CAN KEEP YOU MORE INTERESTED IN TRYING TO BE COOL THAN THE REALITIES OF LIFE,
THE LONGER THEY CAN KEEP YOU ON YOUR ASS.

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MEET THE YOUNG FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AND LOOK INTO THE EYES OF A REAL BLACK MAN.

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IN JULY OF 1852 - NINE YEARS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR - DURING A TIME WHEN THEY WOULD LYNCH A BLACK MAN SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY WERE BORED AND WANTED TO PASS THE TIME OF DAY, DOUGLASS LOOKED WHITE AMERICA DIRECTLY IN THE EYE AND TOLD THEM THE FOLLOWING:

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"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 sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, 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 these United States, at this very hour…"
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Now, THAT'S  what it means to be cool.

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Eric L. Wattree
Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com
BLACK WRITERS, INTELLECTUALS, AND INDEPENDENT THINKERS
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Religion: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.