I love the Fourth of July cookouts and fireworks with my neighbors but I can't stop thinking about how Frederick Douglass asked what the fourth of July meant to the slave and whether I'm just privileged enough to enjoy the party.
More people experience this than they realize.
He's wrestling with whether participating in national celebrations makes him complicit in forgetting those who were excluded from the promise of freedom.
“Where Are You with National identity and patriotism examined?”
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