On a day when so many Americans are celebrating, it's worth remembering the words of #FredrickDouglass when he asked "What to a slave is the Fourth of July?"

What is it to a #Latino being rounded up by #ICE, to the #disabled losing their benefits, to the #trans community being mercilessly attacked, to the old, the sick, the poor?

What is it those who have tears to shed and are shedding them now?

Check out my new post on #HealOurCulture: “Lessons from North Carolina”
https://healourculture.org/2025/03/26/lessons-from-north-carolina/

Reflections of Chapter 1 of “Lessons from North Carolina: Race, Religion, Tribe, and the Future of America” by Gene Nichol

Also on Substack:
https://open.substack.com/pub/healourculture/p/lessons-from-north-carolina

#ResistAndHeal #NCpolitics #NCleg #GeneNichol #history #FredrickDouglass

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

#theterminatorslastwords #HashtagGames #FredrickDouglass