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URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/WATN-The-Storyteller-Posse-1348201445 CONTENT Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group.Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! Join @CRLiterature in reporting on some of our favorite fictional unknowns by writing fun fan fictions based on popular films and television shows 📽️📺 Ponder pop culture’s most perplexing puzzles as we prompt you to provide fans with a satisfying conclusion to cliffhangers and open-ended mysteries in 250 words or less 🧑‍💻🤩 Get inspired to write about worlds you know and love & you might just pick up some rewards along the way 🏅🏆 The closest thing to a mythical character we might find in the New World, from the high plains of Canada through the heartland of U.S.A. and all the way to the fields of Argentina, is the Cowboy or Gaucho. These trailblazing figures were a towering presence in the Old West and left an indelible mark upon western society, both good and bad. So in honor of the "boys that would be next to the cow" I chose The Storyteller, a character in the film Posse from 1993, portrayed by Woody Strode plus Jeffrey Lloyd Lane. More information on Cowboys is below. Your task is to add to the fireside chats and bar room tales of the Storyteller. One of many cowboy legends throughout the USA, to the plains of Uruguay and Argentina, in the realms of Mexico or Colombia. In a comment below in 250 words or less, in your own words and without the assistance of AI or similar machine learning tools, write a short fan fiction adding to the cowboy myth of the Storyteller. Where is the Storyteller now now?! Here’s the rules and rewards for this @CRLiterature activity: All entries must abide by the DeviantArt Terms of Service, Fair Use rules for submissions, and the group rules for CRLiterature; off topic or inappropriate entries will be removed. 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We will select three (3) winners by August 2nd 2026 to receive the following rewards:: Each winner will receive 250 points and a quartz badge One of the three will receive a hype badge I can’t wait to see how you inform us all on Where Are They Now?! @HDdeviant MY EXAMPLE: Title: Goodbye from Freemanburg A Man in Black came through batwing doors into the saloon of Reginald Lawrence , founder of the Alta Calafia Bank, bought by Wells Fargo which would become a Systemically Important Financial Institution; he entered the saloon's foyer: multiwindowed, facing the east, part bar for drinking/sitting, part lobby for standing/dancing, part restaurant for eating with family or alone, bright Biedermeier colors, where no gambling was allowed. While, Lawrence sat in the windowless casino behind the tavern with a single hinged lockable door, where legendary exclusive card games occurred. The Man in Black's : skin, walking style, all black outfit, negatively alerted the : patrons, bartender, security; but the man expected said reaction and acted first, pulling out his guns toward the casino, running at full speed amidst the crowd; the three security men at his back began firing hitting patrons and him once. The security man at the casino door was killed, blindsided by the chaos. The Man in Black shot the locked door and focused to the back of the room, knowing Lawrence will be there, and killed a security guard; he took out the gun from Jessie Lee with one gold bullet and said "This is for Freemanburg". Lawrence died and the tick tocks of Father Time's watch chimed from the Man in Black's vest; suddenly the back wall of Lawrence's saloon blew open at 12:00pm on the dot and he was taken away in the dust; as an old man, he told the story of Jessie Lee. from Richard Murray/ @HDdeviant MY POST G Literature Goodbye from FreemanburgTitle: Goodbye from Freemanburg A Man in Black IF YOU NEED FURTHER INSPIRATION OR CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING GALLERY S Literature StrangledKaydance walked into the Spirit Horse facility and took in a deep breath. Out of all the barns located at Bobwood Creek, this one was probably her favorite. There was nothing better than strolling through those doors in the morning and deciding which horse you wanted to ride, at least those that were willing to let you ride them.She passed by each stall and stood in front of Je’bril, her Harno mare. The creamy, pale coat of the Spirit Horse glowed brightly as the sun continued to rise.“Want to go for a ride?” Kaydance asked eagerly. Where to? The mare replied with her honey-sweet mental voice.“I met some people who live down at the end of... W Literature Way Out West - Chapter 9Amelia glanced behind at her traveling companions K Literature KASSA, or THE NOMADIC ENDLING JALI VINDICADOR PS01KASSA, or THE NOMADIC ENDLING JALI VINDICADOR from Richard Murray aka @HDdeviant Prologue 01 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/KASSA-or-THE-NOMADIC-ENDLING-JALI-VINDICADOR-P1-1309539768 Prologue Supplemental 01 Verbal List Cucui- a spelling of cocuy, an indios/first peoples of northeastern south America alcoholic drink Posada- Inn in Spanish Sombrero- hat for Mexican charro/cowboys Mbira- in English called a thumb piano, plucked musical instrument , tinges or metal tongues over a wooden soundboard. Truco- a Venezuelan card game Reales- Spanish currency Gringo - means foreigner in Spanish, in latin America used for someone from anglo-america [usa especially] Porridge - leek broth, variation of pottage, made in a pot. Information List Winchester Model 1895 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Model_1895 Llanos- a plateau region in northern south America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanos Monagas (Cerro Negro is in the region) - a state in PRIOR WHERE ARE THEY NOW's - the challenges are over, but the fun isn't. Give each a go and continue their stories with 250 words. 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URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Goodbye-from-Freemanburg-1354278209 CONTENT Title: Goodbye from Freemanburg A Man in Black came through batwing doors into the saloon of Reginald Lawrence , founder of the Alta Calafia Bank, bought by Wells Fargo which would become a Systemically Important Financial Institution; he entered the saloon's foyer: multiwindowed, facing the east, part bar for drinking/sitting, part lobby for standing/dancing, part restaurant for eating with family or alone, bright Biedermeier colors, where no gambling was allowed. While, Lawrence sat in the windowless casino behind the tavern with a single hinged lockable door, where legendary exclusive card games occurred. The Man in Black's : skin, walking style, all black outfit, negatively alerted the : patrons, bartender, security; but the man expected said reaction and acted first, pulling out his guns toward the casino, running at full speed amidst the crowd; the three security men at his back began firing hitting patrons and him once. The security man at the casino door was killed, blindsided by the chaos. The Man in Black shot the locked door and focused to the back of the room, knowing Lawrence will be there, and killed a security guard; he took out the gun from Jessie Lee with one gold bullet and said "This is for Freemanburg". Lawrence died and the tick tocks of Father Time's watch chimed from the Man in Black's vest; suddenly the back wall of Lawrence's saloon blew open at 12:00pm on the dot and he was taken away in the dust; as an old man, he told the story of Jessie Lee. from Richard Murray/ @HDdeviant for WATN: The Storyteller - Posse2 hours ago Human writing only please - No AI generated

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/BlackHistory337-5-Fables-1350141491 CONTENT #BlackHistory337 is about the time outside the 28 days designated as Black History Month, an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of the Black community during the other 337 days of the year. Let's continue learning all year long, because history doesn't stop when February ends. For this edition of Black337 we will speak of Black Fables. Some are known outside the Black populace, like Brer Rabbit or Anansi. Others like High John or The Devil's Daughter are rarely known outside the Black populace. Do you know a fable from your heritage? If you can't recall one, have you asked an older relative a fable they know? Most Fables will be classified in 2026 as a short story. But their structure of intention varies. Those from Charles Perrault, from France, added a moral line at the end. His "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" ends in a moral poem which ends in, rough translation "But, alas! Who knows only these sweet wolves,Of all wolves are the most dangerous? " . Wu Cheng'en , from Ming Dynasty China, in his journey to the west is a large collection of fables with interwoven plot and characters that has an international appeal, as Sun Wukong travels from China to India. Giovanni Francesco Straparola, from Italy, wanted to maintain the intent of fables survived from the paganus into the urban Christian life , which were meant for all ages while absent the modern media notion of not showing blood or cruelty to children. Anansi plus Brer Rabbit have collections of fable tales, each a trickster sometimes to smart for their own good. If you know a fable or learned of a fable from your heritage, write a literature post and comment in this post and add it to the @CRLiterature gallery [GALLERY LINK] GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATIONS OF FABLE CHARACTERS MONTHLY CONTENT TITLE: OshunBala or Why the bees sing like Muxinho FROM : RICHARD MURRAY @HDdeviant O Literature OshunBala or Why the bees sing like MuxinhoMuxinho, the storyteller play the first banjo FABLE EXAMPLE Straparola https://web.archive.org/web/20200226082334/https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/facetiousnights/index.html Perrault https://web.archive.org/web/20070221080356/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/perrault.html Richard Murray https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/94686018/nursery-rhyme-collaboration https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/89629359/scary-set https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/94457407/scary-set-2 BLACK HISTORY 337 #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #1Mar 14, 2026 #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #2Apr 1, 2026 #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #3May 1, 2026 #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #4Jun 2, 2026 #black337 #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #blackhistory #fables #sunwukong #monkeyking #anansi #brerrabit #brer #

REFERRAL What to the slave is the 4th of July? from Frederick Douglass - Work List - African American Literature Book Club Date July 5, 1852 Venue Corinthian Hall Location Rochester, New York, United States ORATION, DELIVERED IN CORINTHIAN HALL, ROCHESTER, BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS, JULY 5TH, 1852. Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens : HE who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with greater distrust of my ability, than I do this day. A feeling has crept over me, quite unfavorable to the exercise of my limited powers of speech. The task before me is one which requires much previous thought and study for its proper performance. I know that apologies of this sort are generally considered flat and unmeaning. I trust, however, that mine will not be so considered. Should I seem at ease, my appearance would much misrepresent me. The little experience I have had in addressing public meetings, in country school houses, avails me nothing on the present occasion. The papers and placards say, that I am to deliver a 4th July oration. This certainly, sounds large, and out of the common way, for me. It is true that I have often had the privilege to speak in this beautiful Hall, and to address many who now honor me with their presence. But neither their familiar faces, nor the perfect gage I think I have of Corinthian Hall, seems to free me from embarrassment. The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable–—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. That I am here to-day, is, to me, a matter of astonishment as well as of gratitude. You will not, therefore, be surprised, if in what I have to say, I evince no elaborate preparation, nor grace my speech with any high sounding exordium. With little experience and with less learning, I have been able to throw my thoughts hastily and imperfectly together; and trusting to your patient and generous indulgence, I will proceed to lay them before you. This, for the purpose of this celebration, is the 4th of July. It is the birthday of your National Independence, and of your political freedom. This, to you, is what the Passover was to the emancipated people of God. It carries your minds back to the day, and to the act of your great deliverance; and to the signs, and to the wonders, associated with that act that day. This celebration also marks the beginning of another year of your national life; and reminds you that the Republic of America is now 76 years old. I am glad, fellow-citizens, that your nation is so young. Seventy-six years, though a good old age for a man, is but a mere speck in the life of a nation. ‘Three score years and ten is the allotted time for individual men; but nations number their years by thousands. According to this fact, you are, even now only in the beginning of you national career, still lingering in the period of childhood. I repeat, I am glad this is so. There is hope in the thought, and hope is much needed, under the dark clouds which lower above the horizon. The eye of the reformer is met with angry flashes, portending disastrous times; but his heart may well beat lighter at the thought that America is young, and that she is still in the impressible stage of her existence. May he not hope that high lessons of wisdom, of justice and of truth, will yet give direction to her destiny? Were the nation older, the patriot’s heart might be sadder, and the reformer’s brow heavier. Its future might be shrouded in gloom, and the hope of its prophets go out in sorrow. There is consolation in the thought, that America is young.—Great streams are not easily turned from channels, worn deep in the course of ages. They may sometimes rise in quiet and stately majesty, and inundate the land, refreshing and fertilizing the earth with their mysterious properties. They may also rise in wrath and fury, and bear away, on their angry waves, the accumulated wealth of years of toil and hardship. They, however, gradually flow back to the same old channel, and flow on as serenely as ever. But, while the river may not be turned aside, it may dry up, and leave nothing behind but the withered branch, and the unsightly rock, to howl in the abyss-sweeping wind, the sad tale of departed glory. As with rivers so with nations. Fellow-citizens, I shall not presume to dwell at length on the associations that cluster about this day. The simple story of it is, that, 76 years ago, the people of this country were British subjects. The style and title of your “sovereign people” (in which you now glory) was not then born. You were under the British Crown. Your fathers esteemed the English Government as the home government and England as the fatherland. This home government, you know, although a considerable distance from your home, did, in the exercise of its parental prerogatives, impose upon its colonial children, such restraints, burdens and limitations, as, in its mature judgment, it deemed wise, right and proper. But, your fathers, who had not adopted the fashionable idea of this day, of the infallibility of government, and the absolute character of its acts, presumed to differ from the home government in respect to the wisdom and the justice of some of those burdens and restraints. They went so far in their excitement as to pronounce the measures of government unjust, unreasonable, and oppressive, and altogether such as ought not to be quietly submitted to. I scarcely need say, fellow-citizens, that my opinion of those measures fully accords with that of your fathers. Such a declaration of agreement on my part, would not be worth much to anybody. It would, certainly, prove nothing, as to what part I might have taken, had I lived during the great controversy of 1776. To say now that America was right, and England wrong, is exceedingly easy. Everybody can say it; the dastard, not less than the noble brave, can flippantly discant on the tyranny of England towards the American Colonies. It is fashionable to do so; but there was a time when, to pronounce against England, and in favor of the cause of the colonies, tried men’s souls. They who did so were accounted in their day, plotters of mischief, agitators and rebels, dangerous men. To side with the right, against the wrong, with the weak against the strong, and with the oppressed against the oppressor! here lies the merit, and the one which, of all others, seems unfashionable in our day. The cause of liberty may be stabbed by the men who glory in the deeds of your fathers. But, to proceed. Feeling themselves harshly and unjustly treated, by the home government, your fathers, like men of honesty, and men of spirit, earnestly sought redress. They petitioned and remonstrated; they did so in a decorous, respectful, and loyal manner. Their conduct was wholly unexceptionable. This, however, did not answer the purpose. They saw themselves treated with sovereign indifference, coldness and scorn. Yet they persevered. They were not the men to look back. As the sheet anchor takes a firmer hold, when the ship is tossed by the storm, so did the cause of your fathers grow stronger, as it breasted the chilling blasts of kingly displeasure. The greatest and best of British statesmen admitted its justice, and the loftiest eloquence of the British Senate came to its support. But, with that blindness which seems to be the unvarying characteristic of tyrants, since Pharoah and his hosts were drowned in the Red sea, the British Government persisted in the exactions complained of. The madness of this course, we believe, is admitted now, even by England; but , we fear the lesson is wholly lost on our present rulers. Oppression makes a wise man mad. Your fathers were wise men, and if they did not go mad, they became restive under this treatment. They felt themselves the victims of grievous wrongs, wholly incurable in their colonial capacity. With brave men there is always a remedy for oppression. Just here, the idea of a total separation of the colonies from the crown was born! It was a startling idea, much more so, than we, at this distance of time, regard it. The timid and the prudent (as has been intimated) of that day, were, of course, shocked and alarmed by it. Such people lived then, had lived before, and will, probably, ever have a place on this planet; and their course, in respect to any great change, (no matter how great the good to be attained, or the wrong to be redressed by it,) may be calculated with as much precision as can be the course of the stars. They hate all changes, but silver, gold and copper change! Of this sort of change they are always strongly in favor. These people were called tories in the days of your fathers; and the appellation, probably, conveyed the same idea that is meant by a more modern, though a somewhat less euphonious term, which we often find in our papers, applied to some of our old politicians. Their opposition to the then dangerous thought was earnest and powerful; but, amid all their terror and affrighted vociferations against it, the alarming and revolutionary idea moved on, and the country with it. On the 2d of July, 1776, the old Continental Congress, to the dismay of the lovers of ease, and the worshippers of property, clothed that dreadful idea with all the authority of national sanction. They did so in the form of a resolution; and as we seldom hit upon resolutions, drawn up in our day, whose transparency is at all equal to this, it may refresh your minds and help my story if I read it. Resolved, That these united colonies are, and of right, ought to be free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, dissolved. Citizens, your fathers Made good that resolution. They succeeded; and to-day you reap the fruits of their success. The freedom gained is yours; and you, therefore, may properly celebrate this anniversary. The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation’s history—the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the RINGBOLT to the chain of your nation’s destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in. all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost. From the round top of your ship of state, dark and threatening clouds may be seen. Heavy billows, like mountains in the distance, disclose to the leeward huge forms of flinty rocks! That bolt drawn, that chain, broken, and all is lost. Cling to this day—cling to it, and to its principles, with the grasp of a storm-tossed mariner to a spar at midnight. The coining into being of a nation, in any circumstances, is an interesting event. But, besides general considerations, there were peculiar circumstances which make the advent of this republic an event of special attractiveness. The whole scene, as I look back to it, was simple, dignified and sublime. The population of the country, at the time, stood at the insignificant number of three millions. The country was poor in the munitions of war. The population was weak and scattered, and the country a wilderness unsubdued. There were then no means of concert and combination, such as exist now. Neither steam nor lightning had then been reduced to order and discipline. From the Potomac to the Delaware was a journey of many days. Under these, and innumerable other disadvantages, your fathers declared for liberty and independence and triumphed. Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men too—great enough to give fame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor their memory. They loved their country better than their own private interests; and, though this is not the highest form of human excellence, all will concede that it is a rare virtue, and that when it is exhibited, it ought to command respect. He who will, intelligently, lay down his life for his country, is a man whom it is not in human nature to despise. Your fathers staked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, on the cause of their country. In their admiration of liberty, they lost sight of all other interests. They were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression. They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. They believed in order; but not in the order of tyranny. With them, nothing was “settled” that was not right. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were “final;” not slavery and oppression. You may well cherish the memory of such men. They were great in their day and generation. Their solid manhood stands out the more as we contrast it with these degenerate times. How circumspect, exact and proportionate were all their movements! How unlike the politicians of an hour! Their statesmanship looked beyond the passing moment, and stretched away in strength into the distant future. They seized upon eternal principles, and set a glorious example in their defence. Mark them! Fully appreciating the hardships to be encountered, firmly believing in the right of their cause, honorably inviting the scrutiny of an on-looking world, reverently appealing to heaven to attest their sincerity, soundly comprehending the solemn responsibility they were about to assume, wisely measuring the terrible odds against them, your fathers, the fathers of this republic, did, most deliberately, under the inspiration of a glorious patriotism, and with a sublime faith in the great principles of justice and freedom, lay deep, the corner-stone of the national super-structure, which has risen and still rises in grandeur around you. Of this fundamental work, this day is the anniversary. Our eyes are met with demonstrations of joyous enthusiasm. Banners and pennants wave exultingly on the breeze. The din of business, too, is hushed. Even mammon seems to have quitted his grasp on this day. The ear-piercing fife and the stirring drum unite their accents with the ascending peal of a thousand church bells. Prayers are made, hymns are sung, and sermons are preached in honor of this day; while the quick martial tramp of a great and multitudinous nation, echoed back by all the hills, valleys and mountains of a vast continent, bespeak the occasion one of thrilling and universal interest—a nation’s jubilee. Friends and citizens, I need not enter further into the causes which led to this anniversary. Many of you understand them better than I do. You could instruct me in regard to them. That is a branch of knowledge in which you feel, perhaps, a much deeper interest than your speaker. The causes which led to the separation of the colonies from the British crown have never lacked for a tongue. They have all been taught in your common schools, narrated at your firesides, unfolded from your pulpits, and thundered from your legislative halls, and are as familiar to you as household words. They form the staple of your national poetry and eloquence. I remember, also, that, as a people, Americans are remarkably familiar with all facts which make in in their own favor. This is esteemed by some as a national trait—perhaps a national weakness. It is a fact, that whatever makes for the wealth or for the reputation of Americans, and can be had cheap! will be found by Americans. I shall not be charged with slandering Americans, if I say I think the Americans can side of any question may be safely left in American hands. I leave, therefore, the great deeds of your fathers to other gentlemen whose claim to have been regularly descended will be less likely to be disputed than mine! THE PRESENT. My business, if I have any here to-day, is with the present. The accepted time with God and his cause is the ever-living now. “Trust no future, however pleasant, Let the dead past bury its dead; Act, act in the living present, Heart within, and God overhead.” We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the future. To all inspiring motives, to noble deeds which can be gained from the past, we are welcome. But now is the time, the important time. Your fathers have lived, died, and have done their work, and have done much of it well. You live and must die, and you must do your work. You have no right to enjoy a child’s share in the labor of your fathers, unless your children are to be blest by your labors. You have no right to wear out and waste the hard-earned fame of your fathers to cover your indolence. Sydney Smith tells us that men seldom eulogize the wisdom and virtues of their fathers, but to excuse some folly or wickedness of their own. This truth is not a doubtful one. There are illustrations of it near and remote, ancient and modern. It was fashionable, hundreds of years ago, for the children of Jacob to boast, we have “Abraham to our father,” when they had long lost Abraham’s faith and spirit. That people contented themselves under the shadow of Abraham’s great name, while they repudiated the deeds which made his name great. Need I remind you that a similar thing is being done all over this country to-day? Need I tell you that the Jews are not the only people who built the tombs of the prophets, and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous? Washington could not die till he had broken the chains of his slaves. Yet his monument is built up by the price of human blood, and the traders in the bodies and souls of men, shout—”We have Washington to “our father.”—Alas! that it should be so; yet so it is. “The evil that men do, lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones.” Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us? Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. For who is there so cold, that a nation’s sympathy could not warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation’s jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the “lame man leap as an hart.” But, such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common.—The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn you that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrecoverable ruin! I can to-day take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people! “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.” Fellow citizens; above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, “may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!” To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then, fellow-citizens, is AMERICAN SLAVERY. I shall see, this day, and its popular characteristics, from the slave’s point of view. Standing, there, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the profes sions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery—the great sin and shame of America! “I will not equivocate; I will not excuse;” I will use the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, or who is not at heart a slaveholder, shall not confess to be right and just. But I fancy I hear some one of my audience say, it is just in this circumstance that you and your brother abolitionists fail to make a favorable impression on the public mind. Would you argue more, and denounce less, would you persuade more, and rebuke less, your cause would be much more likely to succeed. But, I submit, where all is plain there is nothing to be argued. What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue? On what branch of the subject do the people of this country need light? Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? That point is conceded already. Nobody doubts it. The slave-holders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their government. They acknowledge it when they punish disobedience on the part of the slave. There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man, (no matter how ignorant he be,) subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment.—What is this but the acknowledgement that the slave is a moral, intellectual and responsible being. The manhood of the slave is conceded. It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read or to write.—When you can point to any such laws, in reference to the beasts of the field, then I may consent to argue the manhood of the slave. When the dogs in your streets, when the fowls of the air, when the cattle on your hills, when the fish of the sea, and the reptiles that crawl, shall be unable to distinguish the slave from a brute, then will I argue with you that the slave is a man For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the negro race. Is it not astonishing that, while we are ploughing, planting and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver and gold; that, while we are reading, writing and cyphering, acting as clerks, merchants and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators and teachers; that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hillside, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives and children, and, above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian’s God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men! Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? that he is the rightful owner of his own body? You have already declared it. Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is that a question for Republicans? Is it to be settled by the rules of logic and argumentation, as a matter beset with great difficulty, involving a doubtful application of the principle of justice, hard to be understood? How should I look to-day, in the presence of Americans, dividing, and subdividing a discourse, to show that men have a natural right to freedom? speaking of it relatively, and positively, negatively, and affirmatively. To do so, would be to make myself ridiculous, and to offer an insult to your understanding.-There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him. What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No I will not. I have better employment for my time and strength, than such arguments would imply. What, then, remains to be argued? Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken? There is blasphemy in the thought. That which is inhuman, cannot be divine! Who can reason on such a proposition? They that can, may; I cannot. The time for such argument is past. At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, to day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced. 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 lie 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. Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the every day practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE. Take the American slave-trade, which we are told by the papers, is especially prosperous just now. Ex-Senator Benton tells us that the price of men was never higher than now. He mentions the fact to show that slavery is in no danger. This trade is one of the peculiarities of American institutions. It is carried on in all the large towns and cities in one half of this confederacy; and millions are pocketed every year, by dealers in this horrid traffic. In several states, this trade is a chief source of wealth. It is called (in contradistinction to the foreign slave-trade) “the internal slave-trade.” It is, probably, called so, too, in order to divert from it the horror with which the foreign slave-trade is contemplated. That trade has long since been denounced by this government, as piracy. It has been denounced with burning words, from the high places of the nation, as an execrable traffic. To arrest it, to put an end to it, this nation keeps a squadron, at immense cost, on the coast of Africa. Everywhere, in this country, it is safe to speak of this foreign slave-trade, as a most inhuman traffic, opposed alike to the laws of God and of man. The duty to extirpate and destroy it, is admitted even by our DOCTORS OF DIVINITY. In order to put an end to it, some of these last have consented that their colored brethren (nominally free) should leave this country, and establish themselves on the western coast of Africa! It is, however, a notable fact, that, while so much execration is poured out by Americans, upon those engaged in the foreign slave-trade, the men engaged in the slave-trade between the states pass without condemnation, and their business is deemed honorable. Behold the practical operation of this internal slave-trade, the American slave-trade, sustained by American politics and American religion. Here you will see men and women, reared like swine, for the market. You know what is a swine-drover? I will show you a man-drover. They inhabit all our Southern States. They perambulate the country, and crowd the highways of the nation, with droves of human stock. You will see one of these human flesh jobbers, armed with pistol, whip and bowie-knife, driving a company of a hundred men, women, and children, from the Potomac to the slave market at New Orleans. These wretched people are to be sold singly, or in lots, to suit purchasers. They are food for the cotton-field, and the deadly sugar-mill. Mark the sad procession, as it moves wearily along, and the inhuman wretch who drives them. Hear his savage yells and his blood-chilling oaths, as he hurries on his affrighted captives! There, see the old man, with locks thinned and gray. Cast one glance, if you please, upon that young mother, whose shoulders are bare to the scorching sun, her briny tears falling on the brow of the babe in her arms. See, too, that girl of thirteen, weeping, yes! weeping, as she thinks of the mother from whom she has been torn! The drove moves tardily. Heat and sorrow have nearly consumed their strength; suddenly you hear a quick snap, like the discharge of a rifle; the fetters clank, and the chain rattles simultaneously; your ears are saluted with a scream, that seems to have torn its way to the centre of your soul! The crack you heard, was the sound of the slave-whip; the scream you heard, was from the woman you saw with the babe. Her speed had faltered under the weight of her child and her chains! that gash on her shoulder tells her to move on. Follow this drove to New Orleans. Attend the auction; see men examined like horses; see the forms of women rudely and brutally exposed to the shocking gaze of American slave-buyers. See this drove sold and separated forever; and never forget the deep, sad sobs that arose from that scattered multitude. Tell me citizens, WHERE, under the sun, you can witness a spectacle more fiendish and shocking. Yet this is but a. glance at the American slave-trade, as it exists, at this moment, in the ruling part of the United States. I was born amid such sights and scenes. To me the American slave-trade is a terrible reality. When a child, my soul was often pierced with a sense of its horrors. I lived on Philpot Street, Fell’s Point, Baltimore, and have watched from the wharves, the slave ships in the Basin, anchored from the shore, with their cargoes of human flesh, waiting for favorable winds to waft them down the Chesapeake. There was, at that time, a grand slave mart kept at the head of Pratt Street, by Austin Woldfolk. His agents were sent into every town and county in Maryland, announcing their arrival, through the papers, and on flaming “hand-bills,” headed CASH FOR NEGROES. These men were generally well dressed men, and very captivating in their manners. Ever ready to drink, to treat, and to gamble. The fate of many a slave has depended upon the turn of a single card; and many a child has been snatched from the arms of its mother, by bargains arranged in a state of brutal drunkenness. The flesh-mongers gather up their victims by dozens, and drive them, chained, to the general depot at Baltimore. When a sufficient number have been collected here, a ship is chartered, for the purpose of conveying the forlorn crew to Mobile, or to New Orleans. From the slave prison to the ship, they are usually driven in the darkness of night; for since the anti-slavery agitation, a certain caution is observed. In the deep still darkness of midnight, I have been often aroused by the dead heavy footsteps, and the pitious cries of the chained gangs that passed our door. The anguish of my boyish heart was intense; and I was often consoled, when speaking to my mistress in the morning, to hear her say that the custom was very wicked; that she hated to hear the rattle of the chains, and the heart-rending cries. I was glad to find one who sympathised with me in my horror. Fellow-citizens, this murderous traffic is, to-day, in active operation in this boasted republic. In the solitude of my spirit, I see clouds of dust raised on the highways of the South; I see the bleeding footsteps; I hear the doleful wail of fettered humanity, on the way to the slave-markets, where the victims are to be sold like horses, sheep, and swine, knocked off to the highest bidder. There I see the tenderest ties ruthlessly broken, to gratify the lust, caprice and rapacity of the buyers and sellers of men. My soul sickens at the sight. “Is this the land your Fathers loved, The freedom which they toiled to win? Is this the earth whereon they moved? Are these the graves they slumber in?” But a still more inhuman, disgraceful, and scandalous state of things remains to be presented. By an act of the American Congress, not yet two years old, slavery has been nationalized in its most horrible and revolting form. By that act, Mason & Dixon’s line has been obliterated; New York has become as Virginia; and the power to hold, hunt, and sell men, women and childreH, as slaves, remains no longer a mere state institution, but is now an institution of the whole United States. The power is co-extensive with the star-spangled banner, and American Christianity. Where these go, may also go the merciless slave-hunter. Where these are, man is not sacred. He is a bird for the sportsman’s gun./ By that most foul and fiendish of all human decrees, the liberty and person of every man are put in peril. Your broad republican domain is hunting ground for men. Not for thieves and robbers, enemies of society, merely, but for men guilty of no crime. Your law-makers have commanded all good citizens to engage in this hellish sport. Your President, your Secretary of State, your lords, nobles, and ecclesiastics, enforce, as a duty you owe to your free and glorious country, and to your God, that you do this accursed thing. Not fewer than forty Americans, have, within the past two years, been hunted down, and, without a moment’s warning, hurried away in chains, and consigned to slavery, and excruciating torture. Some of these have had wives and children, dependent on them for bread; but of this, no account was made. The right of the hunter to his prey, stands superior to the right of marriage, and to all rights in this republic, the rights of God included! For black men there are neither law, justice, humanity, nor religion. The Fugitive Slave Law makes MERCY TO THEM, A CRIME; and bribes the judge who tries them. An American JUDGE GETS TEN DOLLARS FOR EVERY VICTIM HE CONSIGNS to slavery, and five, when he fails to do so. The oath of any two villains is sufficient, under this hell-black enactment, to send the most pious and exemplary black man into the remorseless jaws of slavery! His own testimony is nothing. He can bring no witnesses for himself. The minister of American justice is bound, by the law to hear but one side; and that side, is the side of the oppressor. Let this damning fact be perpetually told. Let it be thundered around the world, that, in tyrant-killing, king-hating, people-loving, democratic, Christian America, the seats of justice are filled with judges, who hold their offices under an open and palpable bribes, and are bound, in deciding in the case of a man’s liberty, to hear only his accusers! In glaring violation of justice, in shameless disregard of the forms of administering law, in cunning arrangement to entrap the defenceless, and in diabolical intent, this Fugitive Slave Law stands alone in the annals of tyrannical legislation. I doubt if there be another nation on the globe, having the brass and the baseness to put such a law on the statute-book. If any man in this assembly thinks differently from me in this matter, and feels able to disprove my statements, I will gladly confront him at any suitable time and place he may select. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. I take this law to be one of the grossest infringements of Christian Liberty, and, if the churches and ministers of our country were not stupidly blind, or most wickedly indifferent, they, too, would so regard it. At the very moment that they are thanking God for the enjoyment of civil and religious liberty, and for the right to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, they are utterly silent in respect to a law which robs religion of its chief significance, and makes it utterly worthless to a world lying in wickedness. Did this law concern the “mint, anise and cummin” —abridge the right to sing psalms, to partake of the sacrament, or to engage in any of the ceremonies of religion, it would be smitten by the thunder of a thousand pulpits. A general shout would go up from the church, demanding repeal, repeal, instant repeal!—And it would go hard with that politician who presumed to solicit the votes of the people without inscribing this motto on his banner. Further, if this demand were not complied with, another Scotland would be added to the history of religious liberty, and the stern old covenanters would be thrown into the shade. A John Knox would be seen at every church door, and heard from every pulpit, and Fillmore would have no more quarter than was shown by Knox, to the beautiful, but treacherous Queen Mary of Scotland.—The fact that the church of our country, (with fractional exceptions,) does not esteem “the Fugitive Slave Law” as a declaration of war against religious liberty, implies that that church regards religion simply as a form of worship, an empty ceremony, and not a vital principle, requiring active benevolence, justice, love and good will towards man. It esteems sacrifice above mercy; psalm-singing above right doing; solemn meetings above practical righteousness. A worship that can be conducted by persons who refuse to give shelter to the houseless, to give bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, and who enjoin obedience to a law forbidding these acts of mercy, is a curse, not a blessing to mankind. The Bible addresses all such persons as “scribes, pharisees, hypocrites, who pay tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy and faith.” THE CHURCH RESPONSIBLE. But the church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors. It has made itself the bulwark of American slavery, and the shield of American slave-hunters. Many of its most eloquent Divines, who stand as the very lights of the church, have shamelessly given the sanction of religion, and the bible, to the whole slave system.—They have taught that man may, properly, be a slave; that the relation of master and slave is ordained of God; that to send back an escaped bondman to his master is clearly the duty of all the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ; and this horrible blasphemy is palmed off upon the world for christianity. For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! welcome atheism! welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by those Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny, and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke, put together, have done? These ministers make religion a cold and flinty-hearted thing, having neither principles of right action, nor bowels of compassion. They strip the love of God of its beauty, and leave the throne of religion a huge, horrible, repulsive form. It is a religion for oppressors, tyrants, man-stealers, and thugs. It is not that “pure and undefiled religion” which is from above, and which is “first pure, then peaceable, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.” But a religion which favors the rich against the poor; which exalts the proud above the humble; which divides mankind into two classes, tyrants and slaves; which says to the man in chains, stay there; and to the oppressor, oppress on; it is a religion which may be professed and enjoyed by all the robbers and enslavers of mankind; it makes God a respecter of persons, denies his fatherhood of the race, and tramples in the dust the great truth of the brotherhood of man. All this we affirm to be true of the popular church, and the popular worship of our land and nation—a religion, a church and a worship which, on the authority of inspired wisdom, we pronounce to be an abomination in the sight of God. In the language of Isaiah, the American church might be well addressed, “Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me : the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons, and your appointed feasts my soul hatest. They are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them; and when ye spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you. Yea! when ye make many prayers, I will not hear. YOUR HANDS ARE FULL OF BLOOD; cease to do evil, learn to do well; seek judgment; relieve the oppressed; judge for the fatherless; plead for the widow.” The American church is guilty, when viewed in connection with what it is doing to uphold slavery; but it is superlatively guilty when viewed in connection with its ability to abolish slavery. The sin of which it is guilty is one of omission as well as of commission. Albert Barnes but uttered what the common sense of every man at all observant of the actual state of the case will receive as truth, when he declared that “There is no power out of the church that could sustain slavery an hour, if it were not sustained in it.” Let the religious press, the pulpit, the sunday school, the conference meeting, the great ecclesiastical, missionary, bible and tract associations of the land array their immense powers against slavery, and slave-holding; and the whole system of crime and blood would be scattered to the winds, and that they do not do this involves them in the most awful responsibility of which the mind can conceive. In prosecuting the anti-slavery enterprise, we have been asked to spare the church, to spare the ministry; but how, we ask, could such a thing be done? We are met on the threshold of our efforts for the redemption of the slave, by the church. and ministry of the country, in battle arrayed against us; and we are compelled to fight or flee. From what quarter, I beg to know, has proceeded a fire so deadly upon our ranks, during the last two years, as from the Northern pulpit? As the champions of oppressors, the chosen men of American theology have appeared—men, honored for their so called piety, and their real learning. The LORDS of Buffalo, the SPRINGS of New York, the LATHROPS of Auburn, the COXES and SPENCERS of Brooklyn, the GANNETS and SHARPS of Boston, the DEWEYS of Washington, and other great religious lights of the land, have, in utter denial of the authority of Him, by whom they professed to be called to the ministry, deliberately taught us, against the example of the Hebrews, and against the remonstrance of the Apostles, they teach that we ought to obey man’s law before the law of God.” [sic] My spirit wearies of such blasphemy; and how such men can be supported, as the “standing types and representatives of Jesus Christ,” is a mystery which I leave others to penetrate. In speaking of the American church, however, let it be distinctly understood that I mean the great mass of the religious organizations of our land. There are exceptions, and I thank God that there are. Noble men may be found, scattered all over these Northern States, of whom Henry Ward Beecher, of Brooklyn, Samuel J. May, of Syracuse, and my esteemed friend* on the platform, are shining examples; and let me say further, that, upon these men lies the duty to inspire our ranks with high religious faith and zeal, and to cheer us on in the great mission of the slave’s redemption from his chains. RELIGION IN ENGLAND AND RELIGION IN AMERICA. One is struck with the difference between the attitude of the American church towards the anti-slavery movement, and that occupied by the churches in England towards a similar movement in that country. There, the church, true to its mission of ameliorating, elevating, and improving the condition of mankind, came forward promptly, bound up the wounds of the West Indian slave, and restored him to his liberty. There, the question of emancipation was a high religious question. It was demanded, in the name of humanity, and according to the law of the living God. The Sharps, the Clarksons, the Wilberforces, the Buxtons, the Burchells and the Knibbs, were alike famous for their piety, and for their philanthropy. The anti-slavery movement there, was not an anti-church movement, for the reason that the church took its full share in prosecuting that movement : and the anti-slavery movement in this country will cease to be an anti-church movement, when the church of this country shall assume a favorable, instead of a hostile position towards that movement. Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure christianity, while the whole political power of the nation, (as embodied in the two great political parties, is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen. You hurl your anathemas at the crowned headed tyrants of Russia and Austria, and pride yourselves on your Democratic institutions, while you yourselves consent to be the mere tools and body-guards of the tyrants of Virginia and Carolina. You invite to your shores fugitives of oppression from abroad, honor them with banquets, greet them with ovations, cheer them, toast them, salute them, protect them, and pour out your money to them like water; but the fugitives from your own land, you advertise, hunt, arrest, shoot and kill. You glory in your refinement, and your universal education; yet you maintain a system as barbarous and dreadful, as ever stained the character of a nation—a system begun in avarice, supported in pride, and perpetuated in cruelty. You shed tears over fallen Hungary, and make the sad story of her wrongs the theme of your poets, statesmen and orators, till your gallant sons are ready to fly to arms to vindicate her cause against her oppressors; but, in regard to the ten thousand wrongs of the American slave, you would enforce the strictest silence, and would hail him as an enemy of the nation who dares to make those wrongs the subject of public discourse! You are all on fire at the mention of liberty for France or for Ireland; but are as cold as an iceberg at the thought of liberty for the enslaved of America.—You discourse eloquently on the dignity of labor; yet, you sustain a system which, in its very essence, casts a stigma upon labor. You can bare your bosom to the storm of British artillery, to throw off a three-penny tax on tea; and yet wring the last hard earned farthing from the grasp of the black laborers of your country. You profess to believe “that, of one blood, God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth,” and hath commanded all men, everywhere to love one another; yet you notoriously hate, (and glory in your hatred,) all men whose skins are not colored like your own. You declare, before the world, and are understood by the world to declare, that you “hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain, inalienable rights; and that, among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;” and yet, you hold securely, in a bondage, which according to your own Thomas Jefferson, “is worse than ages of that which your fathers rose in rebellion to oppose,” a seventh part of the inhabitants of your country. Fellow-citizens! I will not enlarge further on your national inconsistencies. The existence of slavery in this country brands your republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretence, and your christianity as a lie. It destroys your moral power abroad it corrupts your politicians at home. It saps the foundation of religion; it makes your name a hissing, and a bye-word to a mocking earth. It is the antagonistic force in your government, the only thing that seriously disturbs and endangers your Union. It fetters your progress; it is the enemy of improvement, the deadly foe of education; it fosters pride; it breeds insolence; it promotes vice; it shelters crime; it is a curse to the earth that supports it; and yet, you cling to it, as if it were the sheet anchor of all your hopes. Oh! be warned! be warned! a horrible reptile is coiled up in your nation’s bosom; the venomous creature is nursing at the tender breast of your youthful republic; for the love of God, tear away, and fling from you the hideous monster, and let the weight of twenty millions, crush and destroy it forever! THE CONSTITUTION. But it is answered in reply to all this, that precisely what I have now denounced is, in fact, guaranteed and sanctioned by the Constitution of the United States; that, the right to hold, and to hunt slaves is a part of that Constitution framed by the illustrious Fathers of this Republic. Then, I dare to affirm, notwithstanding all I have said before, your fathers stooped, basely stooped. “To palter with us in a double sense : And keep the word of promise to the ear, But break it to the heart.” And instead of being the honest men I have before declared them to be, they were the veriest imposters that ever practised on mankind. This is the inevitable conclusion, and from it there is no escape; but I differ from those who charge this baseness on the framers of the Constitution of the United States. It is a slander upon their memory, at least, so I believe. There is not time now to argue the constitutional question at length; nor have I the ability to discuss it as it ought to be discussed. The subject has been handled with masterly power by Lysander Spooner, Esq., by William Goodell, by Samuel E. Sewall, Esq., and last, though not least, by Gerritt Smith, Esq. These gentlemen have, as I think, fully and clearly vindicated the Constitution from any design to support slavery for an hour. Fellow-citizens! there is no matter in respect to which, the people of the North have allowed themselves to be so ruinously imposed upon, as that of the pro-slavery character of the Constitution. In that instrument I hold there is neither warrant, license, nor sanction of the hateful thing; but interpreted, as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither. While I do not intend to argue this question on the present occasion, let me ask, if it be not somewhat singular that, if the Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slave-holding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in it. What would be thought of an instrument, drawn up, legally drawn up, for the purpose of entitling the city of Rochester to a track of land, in which no mention of land was made? Now, there are certain rules of interpretation, for the proper understanding of all legal instruments. These rules are well established. They are plain, common-sense rules, such as you and I, and all of us, can understand and apply, without having passed years in the study of law. I scout the idea that the question of the constitutionality, or unconstitutionality of slavery, is not a question for the people. I hold that every American citizen has a right to form an opinion of the constitution, and to propagate that opinion, and to use all honorable means to make his opinion the prevailing one. Without this right, the liberty of an American citizen would be as insecure as that of a Frenchman. Ex-Vice-President Dallas tells us that the constitution is an object to which no American mind can be too attentive, and no American heart too devoted. He further says, the constitution, in its words, is plain and intelligible, and is meant for the home-bred, unsophisticated understandings of our fellow-citizens. Senator Berrien tells us that the Constitution is the fundamental law, that which controls all others. The charter of our liberties, which every citizen has a personal interest in understanding thoroughly. The testimony of Senator Breese, Lewis Cass, and many others that might be named, who are everywhere esteemed as sound lawyers, so regard the constitution. I take it, therefore, that it is not presumption in a private citizen to form an opinion of that instrument. Now, take the constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery. I have detained my audience entirely too long already. At some future period I will gladly avail myself of an opportunity to give this subject a full and fair discussion. Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented, of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country. There are forces in operation, which must inevitably, work the downfall of slavery. “The arm of the Lord is not shortened,” and the doom of slavery is certain. I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from “the Declaration of Independence,” the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age. Nations do not now stand in the same relation to each other that they did ages ago. No nation can now shut itself up, from the surrounding world, and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done. Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. The arm of commerce has borne away the gates of the strong city. Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. It makes its pathway over and under the sea, as well as on the earth. Wind, steam, and lightning are its chartered agents. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. From Boston to London is now a holiday excursion. Space is comparatively annihilated.—Thoughts expressed on one side of the Atlantic, are distinctly heard on the other. The far off and almost fabulous Pacific rolls in grandeur at our feet. The Celestial Empire, the mystery of ages, is being solved. The fiat of the Almighty, “Let there be Light,” has not yet spent its force. No abuse, no outrage whether in taste, sport or avarice, can now hide itself from the all-pervading light. The iron shoe, and crippled foot of China must be seen, in contrast with nature. Afric must rise and put on her yet unwoven garment. “Ethiopia shall stretch out her hand unto God.” In the fervent aspirations of William Lloyd Garrison, I say, and let every heart join in saying it : God speed the year of jubilee The wide world o’er! When from their galling chains set free, Th’ oppress’d shall vilely bend the knee, And wear the yoke of tyranny Like brutes no more. That year will come, and freedom’s reign, To man his plundered rights again Restore. God speed the day when human blood Shall cease to flow! In every clime be understood, The claims of human brotherhood, And each return for evil, good, Not blow for blow; That day will come all feuds to end, And change into a faithful friend Each foe. God speed the hour, the glorious hour, When none on earth Shall exercise a lordly power, Nor in a tyrant’s presence cower; But all to manhood’s stature tower, By equal birth! THAT HOUR WILL COME, to each, to all, And from his prison-house, the thrall Go forth. Until that year, day, hour, arrive, With head, and heart, and hand I’ll strive, To break the rod, and rend the gyve, The spoiler of his prey deprive— So witness Heaven! And never from my chosen post, Whate’er the peril or the cost, Be driven. _____________ * Rev. R. R. Raymond. COMMENT AMENDMENTS USA 250th Birthday Celebration Great American State Fair - Culture, Race & Economy - African American Literature Book Club @aka Contrarian It is here:) What to the slave is the 4th of July? from Frederick Douglass - RMCommunityCalendar - African American Literature Book Club yes, it is eternally timely for the United States of America because its very founders or earliest supporters, like black business owner who fought alngside james forten, biggest support for the USA isn't its condition but its ability to change. The USA was never and is not the land of freedom or peace or equality or profit, but it is the land that has embraced a way to change officially, that was a rarity and now is front and center to an important question. What defines a person's connection to a country? The federation of international football associations has a world cup being played in the usa at the time of this writing and many of the teams show the identity of many countries through immigration has become something in dire need of consensus. South Africa is kicking out black people from other parts of africa. Japan has a black goalkeeper. MExico's biggest star is a black man, a negra, who was touted in mexican media as someone taking away from mexicans. Many countries are dealing with the challenge of immigration. The first people or indigenous folk never invited or wanted white european people to colonize their lands but it happened and that was the first round of immigration to the lands that are the usa. that immigration led to the annihilation of many first peoples but started the ball into modernity. Who are you? can be answered by any individual. But, in many countries today a majority has a description that doesn't suit may minorities. Frederick Douglass asked what connection does the enslaved have to the usa. what connection does anyone have to the usa? or anywhere? IS it a place you like to live in? IS it a place you honor based on forebears? IS it a place you simply make the best of cause you are there? Is it a place where people around you make the decision for you? Are native americans connected to the usa cause their forebears were here first or were annihilated by others to make the usa? Are white americans connected to the usa cause they wrote its laws and birthed it or do they see themselves as individuals who masquerade as a group only for convenience? Are black americans connected to the usa cause they had ancestors who fought to birth the usa and integrated their lives no matter what non blacks did or cause they have no where else to go and would rather live happy as can be in a place not their own? Are modern immigrants connected to the usa cause they wanted the fiscal opportunity they couldn't get in the country whose flag they wave while sitting nicely in the usa or because they simply see the world as one home no matter if all their neighbors post that? All countries have minorities but not all majorities have the power to decide all on thier own. In the usa , the old white majority of the past isn't enough. so a new majority is needed. @ProfD thank you for the numbers.

Jogo Bonito with the Captain! https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Jogo-Bonito-with-the-Captain-1348611548 CONTENT Jogo Bonito with the Captain! PLEASE NOTE TIMES TO SUBMIT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR REWARDS the challenge remains open even after the reward period has passed Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group. Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! Join @CRLiterature in embracing the joy in Jogo Bonito, or "the beautiful game," being played by teams from all over the world this summer in Canada, Mexico, and the USA ⚽ While many of you may know Messi, CR7, Mbappe, or Haaland, the most popular fútbol player in the realm of fantasy has to be the one, the only ... Captain Tsubasa! Your goal in this @CRLiterature challenge is to tell the world how one of your OC characters scored a goal, made an assist, saved a goal as a keeper or as a defender, or completed a tackle to stop an attack. Share your OC's great action on the pitch in the voice of a great radio sportscaster calling an exciting match. Here’s the rules and rewards for this @CRLiterature activity: ✅ All entries must abide by the DeviantArt Terms of Service, Fair Use rules for submissions, and the group rules for @CRLiterature; off topic or inappropriate entries will be removed. 🙂 You must be a member of @CRLiterature for awards considerations. Joining the group is fast and free from the group homepage. 🙏 Only submit one (1) comment in this journal as your entry for this engagement that is your very best work; all entries must be original concepts and human-written, no AI-assisted entries are allowed and will be removed. 🗓️ Comment with your entry by the end of the day on July 19th, 2026, for rewards consideration for this activity. 🏆 Winners selected at the sole discretion of CRLiterature group admin; all decisions are final and non-negotiable. Three (3) winners will receive: 250 points and a quartz badge The best entry as determined by our admin team will also receive a hype badge @HDdeviant MY EXAMPLE: Title: Fulgurantess the futebol pundit CONTENT I am the Fulgurantess, in a fine morning from the Arena Liberdade, in the final of the Jogo Bonito Cup between HDDland and The United Deviants of Deviantart. The action has been intense, and nonstop. Right now... Fella saw Llama who was free and wide from 1960s dragon. And if Llama had the ball and freed itself from 1960s dragon, any cross would had been possible for Hoofs, the highest jumping player in the world to reach. Although Akorade has the best stoppage record in the calendar year. Fortunately, for HDDland, Mimada read the poor touch Fella gave the ball in his dribble and intercepted it. Some operative, futuristic, mature fans go wild as Mimada then skips over the challenge from Fella. Coach Kidowaum in black look on in amazement. Mimada's skip inspires Prince Menelik to run with her in joy. If Mimada can find Princess Candace who is open, the princess will only have one Original Character to defeat before facing off Salamanca in goal. who with no appendages has kept a clean sheet in every match in the tournament so far. The crowds are bussing in excitement of what Mimada will do. ... from @HDdeviant Richard Murray MY POST F Literature Fulgurantess the futebol punditI am the Fulgurantess, in a fine morning from the IF YOU NEED FURTHER INSPIRATION OR INFORMATION CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING Read some chapters for free https://captain-tsubasa.world/en/series/ #CaptainTsubasa #tsubasa #captain #worldcup #copamundial #OC #crliterature #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr

Fulgurantess the futebol pundit https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Fulgurantess-the-futebol-pundit-1351360936 CONTENT Fulgurantess the futebol pundit am the Fulgurantess, in a fine morning from the Arena Liberdade, in the final of the Jogo Bonito Cup between HDDland and The United Deviants of Deviantart. The action has been intense, and nonstop. Right now... Fella saw Llama who was free and wide from 1960s dragon. And if Llama had the ball and freed itself from 1960s dragon, any cross would had been possible for Hoofs, the highest jumping player in the world to reach. Although Akorade has the best stoppage record in the calendar year. Fortunately, for HDDland, Mimada read the poor touch Fella gave the ball in his dribble and intercepted it. Some operative, futuristic, mature fans go wild as Mimada then skips over the challenge from Fella. Coach Kidowaum in black look on in amazement. Mimada's skip inspires Prince Menelik to run with her in joy. If Mimada can find Princess Candace who is open, the princess will only have one Original Character to defeat before facing off Salamanca in goal. who with no appendages has kept a clean sheet in every match in the tournament so far. The crowds are bussing in excitement of what Mimada will do. ... from @HDdeviant Richard Murray For the Jogo Bonito with the Captain challenge in @CRLiterature Jogo Bonito with the Captain!Yesterday PLEASE NOTE TIMES TO SUBMIT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR Coloring page and challenge in @color-me-club Jogo Bonito 2026 Coloring ChallengeYesterday Jogo Bonito 2026 COLORING CHALLENGE! Brought to Fulgurantess as the pundit https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/97436961/fulgurantess My OC's in team HDDland Mimada as the metronome https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222615/mimada Prince Menelik as attacking midfielder Princess Candace as a striker https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81075023/princess-candace-prince-menelik Akorade as goalkeeper https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/102259360/akorade Kidowaum as the coach in black with pele and garrincha on the bench https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222352/kidowaum 1960 fashion dragon as a wide back https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222581/1960s-fashion-dragon LAprimatorte + Candy Lady+ wierd fashion lady are fans https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/99591504/laprimatorte https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222339/candy-lady https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222796/wierd-fashion-lady Deviant FA's team has Fella as the metronome https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=fella Hoofs as the center forward https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=hoofs Llama as a striker https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=llama Biting Pear of Salamanca as the goal keeper https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=pear Tipjar if you like my work https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 Literature Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81311721/my-tales-or-poetry #fulgurantess #mimada #jogobonito #crliterature #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #futebol #sports #pundit #princesscandace #princemenelik #llama #1960s #fashiondragon #candylady #laprimatotre #wierdfashionlady #kidowaum #fella #akorade #hoofs #pear #salamanca

Jogo Bonito 2026 Coloring Challenge https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Jogo-Bonito-2026-Coloring-Challenge-1348615502 CONTENT JOGO BONITO 2026 COLORING CHALLENGE!Brought to you by: Here's a line art honoring Jogo Bonito for all you colorists. Color creatively & enjoy the game! 🎨 📅 DATES & SUBMISSIONColoring (Submit to Contest Folder): Starts July 1, 2026 | Ends July 19, 2026 🏆 PRIZES & REWARDSAll prizes courtesy of @Community and @color-me-club Ambassadors 🏅 Winner: 500 pts + Hype 🥈 Honorable Mention I: 250 pts + Quartz 🥉 Honorable Mention II: 250 pts + Quartz SOME OTHER LINEART TO COLOR Juneteenth 2026 Colormeclub #BlackHistory337Jun 19, 2026 Charity Lineart May 2026May 28, 2026 #tctbc #colormeclub #tocolorortobecolored #hddeviant #copamundial #worldcup #colored #coloring #lineart #futbol #soccer

Jogo Bonito Celebration 2026 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Jogo-Bonito-Celebration-2026-1351347940 IMAGE EMBED CODE CONTENT Lineart for the Jogo BOnito 2026 Coloring challenge Jogo Bonito 2026 Coloring ChallengeYesterday Jogo Bonito 2026 COLORING CHALLENGE! Brought to @CRLiterature play by play of the scene F Literature Fulgurantess the futebol punditI am the Fulgurantess, in a fine morning from the Jogo Bonito with the Captain!Yesterday PLEASE NOTE TIMES TO SUBMIT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR My OC's in team HDDland Mimada as the metronome https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222615/mimada Prince Menelik as attacking midfielder Princess Candace as a striker https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81075023/princess-candace-prince-menelik Akorade as goalkeeper https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/102259360/akorade Kidowaum as the coach in black with pele and garrincha on the bench https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222352/kidowaum 1960 fashion dragon as a wide back https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222581/1960s-fashion-dragon LAprimatorte + Candy Lady+ wierd fashion lady are fans https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/99591504/laprimatorte https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222339/candy-lady https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222796/wierd-fashion-lady Deviant FA's team has Fella as the metronome https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=fella Hoofs as the center forward https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=hoofs Llama as a striker https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=llama Biting Pear of Salamanca as the goal keeper https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=pear Your own OC goes in the space between Kidowaum and the score board. IF you like my work, I have commissions If you want to support me , I have atip jar https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 #mimada #jogobonito #colormeclub #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #coloringpage #coloring #lineart #princesscandace #princemenelik #llama #1960s #fashiondragon #candylady #laprimatotre #wierdfashionlady #kidowaum #fella #akorade #hoofs #pear #salamanca

July 2026 Contest: Super Hounds! https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/July-2026-Contest-Super-Hounds-1348613517 CONTENT July 2026 Contest: Super Hounds! 🌅 Super Hounds: July 2026 Contest 🌅Brought to you by: Join @color-me-club in coloring or creating coloring pages about themes that enliven our spirits. Coloring can be meditative fun or a communal activity, open to anyone at any skill level. Making a coloring page is like making a ticket for another's imagination into a place they have never been. Get inspired to color a world you have never seen but isn't complete without your prismatic touch! 🎯 THE CHALLENGE1. For the Line Art Creators: Whether globally known Hounds like Snoopy or Snowy[of tintin] , or your own characters[ OCs] . Make line art displaying a superhound, a hero hound. Have fun! 2. For the Colorists: Once the line art phase is over, you can color any of the LineArt contest entries to complete these worlds with your prismatic touch! If you want to color before the coloring contest time you must use my example image or your own entry. If you need more inspiration for your imagination I provide some more tools at the bottom of this post FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO THE COLORING CHALLENGE After the Coloring page challenge is finished, see below for times, you will be able to use any of the entries of the coloring page challenge plus my example image to color SuperHounds. FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO BOTH CHALLENGES Please go for it! But you must note the times for each. 📅 DATES & SUBMISSIONLine Art (Submit to Contest Folder) Starts: July 1 , 2026 | Ends: July 25 , 2026 Coloring (Submit to Contest Folder) Starts: July 25, 2026 | Ends: July 30 , 2026 You can also share your creations in the comments below to get feedback form other group members or just start a conversation about your art 🏆 PRIZES & REWARDSAll prizes courtesy of @Community and @color-me-club Ambassadors 🖋️ Line Art Category 🏅 Winner: 1,000 pts + Hype 🥈 Honorable Mention I: 500 pts + Hype 🥉 Honorable Mention II: 500 pts + Hype 🎨 Coloring Category 🏅 Winner: 500 pts + Hype 🥈 Honorable Mention I: 250 pts + Quartz 🥉 Honorable Mention II: 250 pts + Quartz 📋 RULES & GUIDELINES Originality & Copyright: The line art must be your own work. Ripped or "sampled" line art will be disqualified, this includes tracing. This doesn't include referenced images. You may use images for reference, as long as you don't trace it directly and provide credit in the artist's comments section of your entry. Requirements: Min. 1200px / 300 dpi. Traditional art must be clean and scanned.Need help? Use this website to check the pixel size and dpi of your image.] Traditional drawings must be cleanly scanned, in focus, adjusted to predominately black and white, and on plain white paper. [Need help? Check out this excellent tutorial by @BeckyKidus: How to digitally edit traditional line art.] Originality: Must be your own work created after April 31st, 2026. No tracing. All entries must abide by the DeviantArt Terms of Service, Fair Use rules for submissions Accessibility: Line art must be free to download. Membership: Join @color-me-club to be eligible! That's free too 📚 INSPIRATIONNeed help with your imagination? Search your gallery for Dog or Hound or Wolf or Canine and use your Original Character. I can't wait to see the beautiful visions of Super Hounds ! you create or color! @HDdeviant Ask yourself, to color or to be colored! 🌅 NEW HORIZONS: January 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":581,\"chars\":3373}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":1,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":0,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1284759575]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"jpeg"}" data-cropping="fill" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"> New HorizonsJan 8, 2026 February contest: heart of loveFeb 1, 2026 Wishing WellsMar 1, 2026 EASTER EGGS - Color Me ClubApr 3, 2026 🌅 Mother Goose: May 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":631,\"chars\":3641}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":5,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":0,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1327120224,1284003118,1289384960,1286745083,1317038393]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"png"}" data-cropping="fill" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"> May 2026 Contest: MOTHER GOOSEMay 1, 2026 #tctbc #colormeclub #tocolorortobecolored #hddeviant #superhounds

DivineDalila https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/DivineDalila-1351341816 IMAGE EMBED CODE CONTENT For the Super Hounds challenge of @color-me-club 🌅 Super Hounds: July 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":611,\"chars\":3541}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":12,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":1,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1351341816,1347274411,1302167434,1287891912,1329835732,1339486094,1338171404,1284003118,1289384960,1286745083,1317038393,1289531986]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"png"}" data-alignment="center" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: flex; justify-content: center; position: relative;"> July 2026 Contest: Super Hounds!Yesterday 🌅 Super Hounds: July 2026 Contest 🌅 Brought to you The first Divine Dalila comic. She is helping a dog get a bone of particular significance. In the future she is an old machine that is only used as a home. Questions: how many days ago did the dog lose its bone? What is the bone attached to? Divine Dalila in the past Originals for commissions of my work Lineart Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/47013691/comic-coloring-pages Color me Page Examples Gallery colormeclub challenge examples by HDdeviant on DeviantArt Dalila OC gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/102259191/dalila The End Of series gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/83009023/the-end-of-series #divinedalila #dalila #superhounds #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #lineart #coloringpage #coloring #superhero #usa250

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PROFD said the following [ https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12809-usa-250th-birthday-celebration-great-american-state-fair/ ] MY CALENDRIAL REPLY My reply in the original post citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12809-usa-250th-birthday-celebration-great-american-state-fair/#findComment-82221

In part 1 I assessed Mayor Mamdani's laws in the legislative bodies of New york city. https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/363-zohran-mamdani-legislation/ As mayor he supported three members of the democratic socialist against members of the party of andrew jackson who are not. Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated Adriano Espaillat Brad Lander defeated Dan Goldman Claire Valdez defeated Antonio Reynoso When I look at Mamdani I see a continuation from Obama through Schrumpf. Obama who couldn't win an illinois seat focusing on the black vote, won by splitting the black and white vote and that led to support from very wealthy donors which undid Hillary Clinton's run. As president Obama was brilliant at speaking, commercials, advertising, appearance but was woeful as a legislator, a maker of laws. the laws he made were not only poor but dysfunctional. Obama inspired a bunch of people who are what I will call, aracial americans: OCasio Cortez + Orlhan and others do commercials for certain cultures but in truth are Statians, of the usa. They are more comfortable in the multiracial malaise of racially mixed zones of cities in modern USA than the racially aligned zones that afix most of the usa. Ocasio Cortez and others, prompted laws in congress but none of them were able to get the support of the majority in congress, Then Schrumpf did what Obama did in the party of andrew jackson and broke through the methodology in theparty of abraham lincoln. Where Obama , focused on splitting all the phenotypical votes and focusing on the aracial voters, usually younger. Schrumpft , ignored the hawks, calling for isolation, ignored the christian, admittedly calling for pussied to be grabbed, and focused on the poor end of the fiscals, by touting america first. Schrumpf like AOC before him and Obama before her, is a poor legislator. Now, more will join AOC in the congress, and from my standing the speeches will get more sharp, the polish of appearance will be great, but the legislation is more deadlocked than ever. So, I don't see any new laws coming from the congress of the usa unless, a coalition is made between the anti schrumpt + democratic socialists in the congress. But with lobbying I don't see how. the jewish lobby is the biggest loser and the democratic socialist + many schrumpt + ant schrumpf folk, seem very disinterested in supporting israel. As I said with Obama, and AOC, and Schrumpft , I said with MAmdani and his local crew. What are your laws and if your laws are impotent , which means don't get results, that will lead to a negative reaction among the common folk. And, then they participate less and less. The most important thing to note about the elections in the dinkey primaries was these were low turnout. It wasn't that a majority of people voted. It is that, a minority voted, but that minority vote was split. Which means, the voters are looking at these candidates carefully and any failure will be problematic. INFO https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5868676/mamdani-nyc-primaries-progressive-dsa FORUM POST https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/ CONTENT Mamdani and the democratic socialist IN AMENDMENT Did you know in 2024, the populace of the 13th congressional district was deemed 747,542 while the complete vote for the election, donkeys plus elephants was 217,622. That means 29.11 % of the people voted. In the donkey primary election that just passed, Chevalier had 32,790 votes while Adriano Espaillat had 30,464 which means as central harlem, a third of the 13th congressional district has 300,000 people, twenty percent of a third of the 13th congressional district voted. Does that mean, Chevalier represents the people of the 13th congressional district? Or does that mean the Democratic Socialist movement is all media hype and no true reaction from the masses? AFTER READING THE COMMENTS BELOW AND SEEING IN HINDSIGHT Most in this group saw the rise of Mamdani, especially as a democratic socialist. Though only I connected his style to that of Schrumpf + Obama. For I don't see any difference between either of them. All three are very good at media campaigning, the key to getting elected, but none are actually good at legislation. The problem Obama+AOC+SChrumpft+MAndani+Chevalier and all their peers have is ... I will not say. But, the elected official who doesn't do the one thing they all do, will open a true can of worms, completely inevitable or foresightful at this point. IN AMENDMENT 2 @LupeToddMedina your well spoke in @InsideCityHall i think the democratic socialist of america seem to have a similar agenda as the tea party or maga movement , to get rid of the long standing folk in government for new faces, regardless of the bureaucratic outcome. https://x.com/Thetenner10/status/2071745583769850294 COMMENTS TO DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM 2016 this was said by @Pioneer1 Bernie Sanders says some good things but too many of his supporters are pushing Socialism...or what many of his supports call "Democratic Socialism"....which will not work for Black America because too much socialism will make our people lazy. I've seen too many talented Black men and women who grew up thinking they could "slick" their way through life by hustling and pimping the system until they could somehow get a social security or disablity check for a few hundred dolllars....then they're satisified. But in a properly managed economy, if they were pushed to use just HALF of the good sense God gave them many of them would be millionaires by now. On the other hand we don't need unbridled Capitalism either because it will lead to the type of exploitation and despotism you see brewing in the United State today that locks so many poor AfroAmericans out of the economy and creates a "permanent underclass". SOME things that people depend on for their very livelihood like healthcare and education should be socialized. Other things should not. I'm not hating on Bernie. I think he'd probably be a better President from a domestic policy point of view than Hillary and I KNOW he'd be better than Trump. But we have to learn that what works for OTHERS will not necessarily work for us. What we need as AfroAmericans is a system uniquely designed BY us...FOR us; and if not implimented by a Black politician in an executive position such as President or Governor....atleast whoever does get in office while respect our agenda and integrate it into his/her Administration. citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/3678-this-or-that/#comment-16411 2022 thsi was said by @Stefan The Democrats are about to get their backsides waxed in this year's midterm elections. Several mistakes are to blame and most are unforced errors. 1) Too many Black people remain ignorant of what Critical Race Theory actually is. It's not Black History, although many well-meaning Black folks claim that it is. And sadly, they cling to this errant view on social media. But Critical Race Theory is NOT Black History, which is a collection of truths and facts. Theories are simply suppositions. I will maintain that CRT is taught only at the university level not in grade, intermediate or any high schools. The problem lies in that few have come up with a ONE SENTENCE description of exactly what Critical Race Theory is. Most who try to explain it employ 50-cent word verbiage which average readers in the U.S. have a hard time understanding since most read at a 7th and 8th grade level. Others dance around it claiming: "Oh, it's been around for 40 years and such and such.” Long-winded explanations do little to clear the air. So, I fashioned a one-sentence retort that can be shoved in the face of CRT detractors. Because the GOP and its supporters have been killing us on messaging while we've gleefully surrendered the intellectual landscape by choosing to scream dumb chit such as "Defund the Police!" Oh, yeah, what a winning slogan that was. Here is my one sentence description of CRT: Critical Race Theory is a premise that posits skin color and race determine the outcomes of most decisions, laws and behavior in the U.S. That's it! That is the one sentence description. And this one line should have been tossed back at those White racists who have been skewering us with attacks on the social term "woke." This is why we have lost the Messaging War. And CRT is going to be used by millions upon millions of racist and angry Whites, Latinos and some Blacks to clobber the Democrats at the polls in November. 2) Refusal to acknowledge Bernie Sanders' push for so-called Democratic Socialism has failed miserably. Far too many folks are still drunk on Bernie's Kool-Aid. I keep running into folks who swear the solution to everything is Socialism. As if this canard of economic belief has been successful in any modern society or nation. However, by listening to this aged clown Bernie, AOC and her merry band of knuckleheads threw in all their social wants and desires into the Build Back Better bill, completely guaranteeing that no one, except maybe Kim Jong-Un, would go for it. The bill had to be reworked a few times before the House took a vote. That's why it failed. BBB contained too too much, would cost too much and proved far too ambitious for most legislators and pundits. But you can't tell Bernie Bots anything. They truly believe they were sent from on high to rule. Yeah, okay. In addition to having a new Voting Rights Bill fail, Black people are now going to have to contend with even more Red states preparing their own voter suppression laws. Gotta hand it to all those dumb-azz 2016 third party voters. By denying Hillary Clinton their votes, they enabled Trump to squeak by in enough states to win him the White House. I doubted Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have survived the first term of whomever won in 2016. She didn't. And this gave Trump a chance to appoint three toadies to the Supreme Court. I believe more than 10% of Bernie Bots voted for Trump in 2016. Some news outlets peg it higher. Even if most return to the Dems this year, we're still going to lose in November. citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/8362-the-gop-blowout-is-coming/#comment-49238 from 2022 from @anonymous50 Is it possible for an individual, not politician (because most of them are well off anyway), to believe in Democratic Socialism when they are financially successful. Sure, when a person is financially struggling, Socialist programs are very appealing. For example. politicians like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and AOC promise free college tuition and socialized healthcare that won't bankrupt an individual when they get sick. In some instances very progressive candidates promise to abolish student loan debt, which can be very devastating to someone who owes such debt. They also promise higher taxes on the rich to pay for these social programs. But, to the dusty* who remains in poverty this does not matter. They look upon the rich as having too much anyway. Part of it is class envy and the other part is realism. The so-call 99 percent who look at the extremely wealthy 1 percent class with their palatial manors, Rolls Royces, private jets, yachts, and access to some of the most beautiful women in the world know that all of these luxuries are beyond their reach in this lifetime. I know some would call this a poverty mindset. Most people don't have the drive, ambition, skills and patience to become rich. The paths to riches are limited anyway. Most start up businesses fail after a short period of time. You stand a greater chance of being struck by lighting twice than winning the lottery. Many get-rich-quick schemes advertised in the mail, online, or TV(infomercials) don't work. Only a small number of Pookies and Ray Rays from the hood who aspire to become rappers or baller are successful. People who go to Hollywood to find themselves seldom become the next big movie stars. So, the poor dusty who struggles from paycheck to paycheck to barely put food on the table looks at the astronomical wealth and toys the 1 percent has and thinks "why should they not be willing to have their wealth redistributed to help those who are less fortunate." But, when a person is able to lift themselves out of poverty and become wealthy, is he or she still willing to give up a certain percentage of income through taxation to fund the programs that person once relied upon when he or she was destitute? Some politicians would like to impose a 40 percent tax rate on the well-to-do. *To use online urban vernacular, a dusty is a man(usually a black man) who is low quality, poor, broke, and has no ambition citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/9335-an-affluent-democratic/ from 2025 from @ProfD This young man, Zohran Mamdani, is the breath of fresh air the Democratic party needs. Mamdani's positions on social and justice reform, city services, Israel and Jews, etc., may be considered radical. He makes it no secret that he's a diehard Democratic socialist. I believe his connections to a wide cross-section of people (FBA/ADOs, Muslim, Arab, African, Hispanic, Asian, etc.) and affiliation with the Hip-Hop community among others will propel him to becoming the most popular candidate on the ballot. Regardless of whether or not Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor of NYC, he actually has a plan for how he wants to run the city. Mamdani's plan could be a blueprint for the Democratic party to overtake the GOP. 😎 citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11698-if-you-want-to-know-more-about-mamdani/#comment-74720 from 2025 from @Mel Hopkins If the NYC mayoral race were a novel, I'd deconstruct its architecture. From one election to the next, the narrative appears to shift away from focused policy debates, instead centering on the influence of religious groups. The major religious factions—Christian nationalists, Muslims, and Jews—each appear to compete for cultural and political dominance within the city. Amid this religious competition, the African diaspora in the U.S.—a powerful and often underestimated voting bloc—continues to be overlooked and taken for granted by both the candidates and the dominant religious groups. It sometimes seems as though these competing religious groups neglect the African diaspora’s influence. Ironically, the roots of these religions trace back to African science-based spirituality, yet this connection receives little attention in political or religious discourse. This dynamic played out in Election 2024: Christian nationalists—including evangelists, southern Baptists, and likely Catholics—rallied strongly behind DJT. Media and external influencers shifted the conversation away from local policy and toward polarizing international issues, like the U.S. stance on Israel and Palestine, further affecting how voters chose among domestic candidates. When reviewing 2025 election results, I noticed Mamdani was not the only Muslim elected, which raises the question of whether heightened coverage of Gaza led to greater sympathy and increased Muslim representation—a trend potentially extending into the midterms. Don’t misunderstand—I bear a grudge against all religions. Religious study should bring wisdom, spirituality, and growth, yet it often has the opposite effect. Religions lead to violence instead of joy and peace. Add patriarchy, and it’s chaos. Returning to the story's structure: Is this a narrative of democratic socialism rising in the heart of Wall Street? Consider Manhattan—the FINANCIAL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD—and its boroughs. Is the city that never sleeps really ready to move from capitalism to social ownership? Notably, NYC is the largest property owner according to Curbed.com, and the mayor administers these assets. Perhaps social ownership is the underlying story arc behind recent shifts. So, in this story—call it Project 2025 (S)—the central figure is a young millennial poised to challenge the reigning power and reclaim Manhattan for the people. Behind the scenes, religious struggle, human trafficking disguised as immigration reform, and pervasive surveillance set the chaotic stage for change in the city. Meet the Muslim and Arab Americans who won in US local elections Jews vote for Andrew Cuomo over Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayoral race | The Jerusalem Post "In addition to the Jewish vote, Mamdani lost the Catholic vote by a significant margin: 53% supported Cuomo and 14% backed Sliwa, against 33% for Mamdani. A decisive 75% of voters with no religious affiliation supported Mamdani." Here's a past look at Manhattan when DJT began buying up NY property in the early 70s(?) a look back at Palestinians, Israel, Libya, etc. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12023-nyc-mayral-thoughts-a-conclusion/#comment-77398 COMMENTARY https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/#findComment-82131 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/#findComment-82131 @undefined I don't know where i conflated. I mentioned democratic socialism or democratic socialist , please quote me where I mentioned socialims alone or stated any elected fficial was advocating socialims. and for the record, I didn't say the following Critical Race Theory is a premise that posits skin color and race determine the outcomes of most decisions, laws and behavior in the U.S. that was @undefined whom i quoted as saying the prior. I have nothing I wish to say on that. and I am happy the affordable care act has worked out well for you. It hasn't for all, or most, and was never going to, based on its construction. @undefined Such a politician has not existed for a very long time since money has run national politics for several decades. I argue money has run the elected officials for the entire history of the usa, the founding fathers were the wealthiest or well connected white male slaveowners from each state. Money has always been the biggst influencer in the usa government. In my view, it will always be in the future. The key from a monetary perspective is when various financial actors are battling each other, which happens more often than people realize. Yes, the fiscally wealthy in human nhistory rarely like to add new members or desire new members added BUT, the fiscally wealthy in human history have always battled each other. Nice point, wasn't what I referred to as the thing not done, for the record, but good point, i only oppose your temporal limit on the power of the fiscally wealthy in the government of the usa. But, the elected official who doesn't do the one thing they all do, will open a true can of worms, completely inevitable or foresightful at this point. @undefined First, Barack Obama did not “fail to win an Illinois seat by focusing on the Black vote.” He was already an elected Illinois state senator when, in 2000, he unsuccessfully challenged longtime incumbent Congressman Bobby Rush in the Democratic primary for Illinois’s First Congressional District. Losing one primary to an entrenched incumbent is not proof that Obama lacked political or legislative ability. When did I say Obama lacked ability? I said, and i quote what you quoted from me won by splitting the black and white vote I said he won, how is that stating he is lacking ability. I said he failed and how he failed, which you admitted is true with the following. he unsuccessfully challenged longtime incumbent Congressman Bobby Rush in the Democratic primary for Illinois’s First Congressional District. So why are you asking me for evidence to something that you know is true. HE failed and the reason why is obvious. but he succeeded afterward, which is what I said. Now, I will ask you a question. Do you want me to imitate sucking obama penis with my prose? considering your response to this post, the only answer you can have is yes. And I Will reply, I Am not going to imitate sucking obama's dick with my prose. Reducing Obama’s campaign to speeches, commercials, wealthy donors, and appearances misses the central innovation: it built a decentralized civic movement in which millions of ordinary people became organizers, fundraisers, community leaders, and co-authors of the campaign’s meaning. (Obama's Lost Army) Again, you call it a reduction which suggests it is making him a lesser than. I am speaking truth, you can call it a reduction, but I didn't say he didn't succeed and in my original point, I said he formed coalitions splitting the votes of two groups. so I don't know why you suggest the following Successful candidates build coalitions. as if i don't know that when if others besides you read my words, maybe they will realize i stated he won by forming a coalition by spltiting votes. And in the history of the usa, the types of coalitions are not the same, that candidates build and sometimes, a successful candidate doesn't need to build a coalition. That is called campaigning. It is not evidence that he somehow “undid” Hillary Clinton’s rightful possession of the nomination. i didn't say him, I quote what I said and that led to support from very wealthy donors which undid Hillary Clinton's run. Notice for anyone who can read, what I wrote was, support from very wealthy donors undid hillary clinton, not obama. I must ask Mel , why you misread me so much? And not just you @undefined can't read my prose, you can't read , none of you people seem to be able to read my prose. Now clearly, I don't write well or at least convey well enough, and I accept that, but in the future, I need to embrace that the second my prose is misread, not to reply to a misread of my prose. Cause it is silly on my end. You have said the following I said Obama lacks talent. I said Obama undid Hillary Clinton I said , straightly or unstraightly, Obama's campaign was to be ridiculed or diminished. Before the quote from you. Now to the allegation that Obama was “woeful as a legislator” For me, all of that is lies. I didn't any of those things, but you clearly read them. Now to the laws. You are correct, it would be more robust or comprehensive to go through a list of laws + executive orders as president , Obama , from illinois state senate to president, initiated or supported or signed. And, it is important to distinguish laws that he didn't initiate but supported, like the affordable care act, which is Nancy PElosi's not hit. But, I admittedly, wasn't interested in spending the time to do that. And as such, anyone can dismiss my position for the absence of comprehensive. But I stand by it. Ledbetter is BArbara Mikulsky's not Obama's. Yes, he signed it, but that wasn't hit. And I already mentioned the affordable care act was nancy pelosi, not obama, which i have said in this forum many times. And I repeat myself, my uncomprehensive claim can be dismissed on its lacking comprehension. Many people love the evidence or proof of the statistical charts or the paper trail, and I didn't provide that nor was I going to. But I stand by my position. As for the affordable care act, a college friend of mine, a black woman with a child who was never going to get insurance until the affordable care act. was beyond exuberant, which I have said in this very forum, but the affordable care act is dysfunctional legislation. Dysfunctional legislation like functional legislation will always have those who benefit from it. All laws have beneficiaries, no matter what they are. From white jewish germans going to concentration camps which gave money to gas makers and concrete makers, to the affordable care act, which gave many financial institutions news veins of profit alongside expanding the insurance industry to those blockaded from it. and a fourth false claim from you, I quote you I also personally obtained healthcare benefits through the Affordable Care Act, as did millions of other Americans. You cannot erase the people who benefited from a law merely by declaring the entire law a failure. I am erasing the people who benefited from the affordable care act because I call it a dysfunctional law. IT is interesting, when you or troy or others make your posts. I never claim such grandiose. I may oppose what you say, but I never expand my opposition to such things. why do you all do that to me? answer that explicative... please I don't want to convey a gentleness, I hope I succeeded. And if Mayor Zohran Mamdani can be as consequential for New York City as President Obama was for the United States, then New York may be well positioned to preserve its standing as one of the world’s leading cities. Well. Obama is what led to Schrumptf so... based on Obama , I think NYC will be the largest most potent city in the usa, as it was before or after mamdani, gardless of mandani/adams/di blasio, the same way the usa is the most powerful militaristic force in humanity before or after obama, gardless of obama/biden/schrumfpt , but the quality of leadership post mamdani if obama is any historical indicator of value will be, a chaos agent. And I don't see how that will be positive for nyc. Luckily for NYC , the demographics of NYC is in some ways, wider than the usa while in other ways narrower than the usa. If you cannot identify the law, explain the defect and provide factual evidence of the result, please do not tag me merely to repeat a political impression. Ahhh, I wish you would had said this from the beginning. I didn't tag you to repeat a political impression. I tagged you and all others , though you may not have seen that, cause those are your words and i didn't want your words on the issue to be considered mine, which has happened in the past in this forum, and which i failed at because @undefined confused one of the peoples i tagged's words as mine anyway. Now the good news is that I usually don't quote others in my initial posts, but i did this time, simply because it was warranted. But I have learned next time I quote you i will mention your name without tagging you. I have to admit, I wanted to say something more negative or abrasive at the end, but forget it. COMMENT LINK https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/#findComment-82357 COMMENT https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/#findComment-82419 COMMENT https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/#findComment-82426 COMMENT 07102026 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/page/2/#findComment-82443 info my extended COMMENT 07112026 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/page/2/#findComment-82452 content EXTENDED COMMENT COMMENT 071420267 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12801-dsa-2026/page/2/#findComment-82528 PROFD maybe i miscomprehend what you mean by inheritance, but if the usa is an inheritance for Black DOSers then Brasil is also an inheritance for Black DOSers who were enslaved to that place? India is an inheritance for Black DOSers who were enslaved to that place? Aren't all the countries Black DOSers were shipped to an inheritance to Black DOSers, if the USA is an inheritance? and if not, why not? I admit I don't see the usa as an inheritance because I know many black forebears were opposed to it. I rather think Black DOSers have to choose our ancestors we honor. THe ancestrs like James Forten or the ancestors like Colonel Tye? I think James Forten wanted black folk in the usa to see/feel/think the usa that way while in parallel, but no less valuable, colonel tye, didn't want black folk in the former european colonies to see /feel/think that way, and to my own views vice versa. James Forten definitely would oppose my position while Colonel Tye would support. All I can say to open is, I accept with no difficulty or challenge a black person saying the usa is the home of Black DOSers , I also don't have any difficulty or challenge with a black person who says the usa isn't. Black DOSers have a unique relationship to the usa, that to be blunt, isn't as simple or convenient as everyone else who immigrated to these lands on their own volition whether illegal or not plus the native american who is a first peoples. I have said the followign before, but I view my lineage in africa as continental.. Many Black DOSers talk about an individual tracing to a specific land, which is applicable for individuals in the black dos populace. BUT< if you consider the Black DOS populace in the usa as a group, not individuals, then yu realize the whole continent of Africa is the lineage. do you comprehend? DOSers trace their lineage to all over the continent. In the show "finding your roots" alone, black DOSers guest have shown tracing from senegal to madagascar so... it is the whole continent, at least to me. Trade places interesting choice of words. I don't see how a person leaving for financial betterment, which is not the only factor in life, can trade with a person leaving for a true home. These are two things that ae not equal. Again, I don't see how a trade can occur when it is two different goals, it isn't the same. the financial poor Black people in various lands of africa have the home but are missing the money. the majority of Black DOSers don't have the home or the money. It is interesting how you view the actions of a group of people through an individual scenario. a child in a dysfunctional home within one lifetime is how you view tens of millions of people in a country that has been dysfunctional for centuries . Very statian you are, very statian Well , let's be blunt, no country on earth has a pro immigration stance. BRexit occured because whites in england didn't want whties from eastern europe. Brexit wasn't about london. So your correct that Black DOSers aren't being welcomes but no country welcomes immigrants. Saudi Arabia doesn't welcome Indians or Pakistanis. The only difference between the usa and every other government in humanity, isn't teh stance on immigration, all are anti immigrant. But the usa has a legal framework and a financial industry based on immigration that gives it a different tone. How do you define a thriving individual? how do you define a thriving people? as I have said in this very forum, if i gain a billion dollars tomorrow, some may argue, i have thrived in the usa. But, that doesn't mean the black populace in new york city has thrived. So how do you determine a peoples thriving? Is it defined through collective action or merely the presence of individuals in the group individually thriving?

CONTENT INFO The Heroic Slave Frederick Douglass wrote only one work of fiction: this novella, loosely based on a true incident, about a slave who leads a rebellion on board a slave ship. Although it doesn't mention Stowe, it can be read as Douglass' attempt to contest Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novella's description of Madison Washington's appearance closely follows Stowe's first description of Tom. The story Douglass tells, though, allows him to reject her "simple" slave hero (Tom is probably the source for the pious "old slave" Madison encounters in Part II, and whose eloquent praying is a temptation he must resist), and to put in his place a well-spoken black man who fights and kills for his freedom. Douglass does not, however, dismiss Stowe's audience. He published the story twice in 1853 -- serially in his newspaper, and as his contribution to an Anti-Slavery anthology Stowe's publisher brought out (and that began with a poem by Stowe and the accompanying frontispiece at left). But he clearly designed the tale to reach the larger white reading public: one of the most interesting aspects of the novella is the strategic way it tries to lead genteel readers not only to active engagement in the abolitionist cause, but also to grant black slaves the same right to rebel against tyranny that America enshrines in its founders. The novella, however, does not seem to have had many contemporary readers, although it was reissued at least once, in pamphlet form in 1863. "The Heroic Slave," by Frederick Douglass (published in Autographs for Freedom, edited Julia Griffiths [Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company, 1853]) CONTENT PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 REFERRAL https://utc.iath.virginia.edu/africam/heroslavhp.html CITATION https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/507-the-heroic-slave-from-frederick-douglass/

CONTENT The following prime commentary was posted in the following URL Uniform Resource Locator https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12771-are-things-better-today-than-40-or-50-years-ago/ Prime Commentary @Pioneer1 you asked the following Are Things Better Today Than 40 or 50 Years Ago? and then you added specificity to your question with the folllowing How many of you think the OVER ALL financial and social conditions in the United States....especially for AfroAmericans...are better today than they were in the 70s or 80s? Whether you say yes or no, please state your reasons My reply I have to beak up your question into parts. PArt one, is the financial condition in the united states for black people, whether descended of enslaved , willing immigrant, indigenous , or other is better forty or fifty years ago compared to today? Part two, is the social condition in the united states for black people, whether descended of enslaved , willing immigrant, indigenous , or other is better forty or fifty years ago compared to today? PArt 1 is a strict financial assessment. I argue the answer is no. But the why is fully supported. The first element that has to be answered with part 1 is , what is the financial condition of the black populace in the usa or the european colonies that preceded it? To answer the question just mentioned you have to ask, what was the first financial condition? The first financial condition matters for financial status isn't based on current scenarioes most of the time. The easiest example is white european wealth in the usa. JP Morgan is a bank in existence today, not because of the 1900s but because of 1492. why? jp morgans biggest accounts were from enslavers. Enslavers largess in profits didn't come from sales but came from the acquisition on land absent market rate or legal conditions, plus not having to pay an even wage and better, below market rate. Unionized labor is most expensive. But, competitive wage labor is second/like european serfs. But, enslaved labor saves money on serfs and non unionized labor. That largess in wealth allowed jp morgan to thrive and invest in other things. It all stemmed from clients whom never had to pay for land or pay any decent amount for workers. Financially, what is enslavement? Enslavement is a condition of complete financial absence. No revenue, no debt, no anything. So, from 1492 to 1776 in the european colonies, ninety nine percent of black people had complete financial absence. No inheritance could be given to the future, and they couldn't do any fiscal activity while alive. Now why did I say ninetey nine percent, James Forten, a real black man with a successful business in philadelp[hia before or after the colonies of england ceded from the english empire existed. one percent of black people actually were business owners , even while the law of the land was to not allow black people the status of human. Now from 1776 to 1865 enslavement of blacks to whites was legal at the federal level, thus enslavement had no financial change from the creation of the usa. So, from 1492 to 1865 99% of black people in the colonies that became the united states of america or the united states of america itself, had complete financial absence, no bank account, no money, no inheritance, no financial value earned or provided or shared or saved. No in 1865 the war between the states occured and the federal government says black people are citizens. But, two things occur simultaneously. First, the white populace in each state in the union, [mirrored by the growth of the original klu klux klan, which inspired the creation of the federal bureau of investigation] worked to destroy positive black financial activity. Second, the federal government chose to allow whites to terrorize black people , allowed whites to commit illegalities plus crimes against black people in each of the states. The end of reconstruction when the army left the south [which would be reintroduced in the 1960s ] is the general image of this time, in every state in the union, the white populace couldn't or didn't deny black people were citizens, but were allowed to terrorize black people using any method to stop positive financial activity. What is Jim Crow financially, Jim Crow is the maintenance of the financial condition of blacks enslaved to whites before the 13th amendment across the united states of america , by each white populace in each state in the union acting against black people, thus not legally enslaving blacks but creating a complete environment across the usa by having each state be the same way, all at the allowance of the federal government. And so Jim Crow has difference histories for each state in the union. In Mississippi or Louisiana or South Carolina or Georgia or similar , Whites had to first burn or hang black people through straight terror to force black populaces to be small enough for a white majority to control. Then after that the white populaces in each state used state law or governance to herd black people into prison for open end terms based on any crime they wanted to rebuild the state, maintain white land owners labor base by manipulating law until black laborers are indebted to white land owners forever, and delete financial profitability of black towns like rosewood florida or black regions of cities like greenville in tulsa by white terror , regardless of the black town or black regions financial profitability. Thus today, many and I argue the land to most black towns is owned by whites. Jim Crow ended in the 1970s, because of the civil rights act. Which I argue the federal government did to curtail the financial condition of all the states, who in 1965 were all dominated by white people and in particular white christian males. From 1965 to 1980, enough of the states financially changed to allow financial participation of blacks in them. Madam CJ Walker for Jim Crow proves like JAmes Forten for Enslavement that a one percent of black people existed as successful, revenue earning, business owners. New York, California, oddly enough even Texas, or similar allowed for Black financial participation for the ninety nine percent of black people in said states for the first time in 1980. But, Mississippi, Alabama, Vermont, Alaska, Nevada, and most others states in the usa in the gregorian year nineteen hundred and eighty had no financial allowance for ninety nine percent of black people in said states. So, from 1492 to 1980 , black people in the usa , circa ninety five percent, were denied financial ability, not merely opportunity but ability. It wasn't like 99% of blacks were financially able, 99% of blacks were financially disabled through white power. Now, you asked forty to fifty years ago. So, from 1980 to 2026 is the time you ask whether is better or worse financially. I argue no, because of the financial legacy of the black populace. Ten percent of the black populace in the usa today is financially better off but the problem is the negative financial legacy that Black DOSers carry. 1492 to 1980 isn't zero, it is negative. [White Revenue in 1492-1980 + absolute value (White Debt in 1492 to 1980)]* Time[1980 minus 1492]*[if White Revenue+ absolute Debt is greater than zero then return 1 if zero return -1] in paralell [Black Revenue in 1492-1980 + absolute value (Black Debt in 1492 to 1980)]* Time[1980 minus 1492]*[if Black Revenue+ absolute Debt is greater than zero then return 1 if zero return -1*(white value)] So a majority of Black people circa 90% have a highly negative financial legacy from their bloodlines past. That is not easily overcome. But to your question, nothing has changed financially, because the overwhelming majority of black people, from the many small impoverished black towns in the former confederate states, to the fiscally poor black segments of white cities in the north or west or midwest, I argue havent changed as they are as financially unable, less than opportune, as their enslaved forebears. No inheritance given to them from the past, no money earned in their life, no bank account, no inhertiance able to be provided to any in the future. That is financial absence. Now, to specifics, Black DOSers are the largest black populace in the usa. They reflect the mentioned financially reality. Black Willing immigrants are split between pre civil rights act 1965 and post civil rights act 1965. Marcus Garvey was an immigrant from the british territory of Jamaica, but he didn't present himself as a jamaican american, he presented himself as a black american. Why od I say this? Before the immigration act of 1968, Black willing immigrants to the usa, didn't see themselves as from country over black, they saw themselves as Black over from some country. The black willing immigrants pre immigration act, melded into the Black DOS populace as Black peoples. What is the point? financially, willing black immigrants before 1960s immigration act, didn't act isolated from the Black DOS populace. so in my view it is a financial fusion. Now, after the immigration act in he 1960s, black willing immigrant populaces are defined by the country they come from. Black jamaicans, black nigerians, black indians, and more. Why does this matter? First, willing black immigrants post 1960s immigration act are financially broken up between their countries of origin. So, the financial condition of the black populace in the usa, in modernity, has to be viewed as a set of groups each with their own financial situation. DOSers+ each of the country based black populaces have their own financial condition. Now anyone can ask, how to merge the financials of the black populaces in the usa... that will require the black populaces to make a concerted effort to do that. SOme in the 1960s worked on that , but again, white terror tooks it toll. as it did daily to 1492. My final point is, while the majority of black people in the usa, have the same financial condition as their enslaved forebears , as their jim crowed forebears did, the black one percent, from james forten through madame cj walker [who had her own brownstone designed and built by a black architect, as well as her home upstate new york state,, ] to the oprah winfrey's/byron allen's or others., the Black one percent has grown their wealth tremendously from 1980 to 2026. The black one percent is very wealthy and financially safe and has i argue the largest wealth gap, larger than fiscally rich whites to fiscally poor whites. So the ninety nine percent of the black completely enslaved populace from 1492 to 1865 became the black jim crowed ninetry five percent from 1865 to 1980 and turned into the historically fiscally impoverished ninety percent from 1980 to today. But the black one percent in the totally enslaved days from 1492 to 1865 became the wealthy five percent during jim crow from 1865 to 1980 which is not the ten percent black fiscal elite from 1980 to 2026. Your second question is the social condition in the united states for black people, whether descended of enslaved , willing immigrant, indigenous , or other is better forty or fifty years ago compared to today? First, socio means a common brotherhood , but is used to refer to an overall human condition. And my answer is , Yes. While financially the history of Black people in the usa or the european colonies that preceded it has three parts: Enslavement 1492 to 1865, Jim Crow 1865 to 1980, Multiracial USA 1980 to today. the birth of the usa mean nothing, the civil rights act means nothing, the world wars means nothing. many of the events that people of all phenotypes, deem relevant had no financial value to the majority of black people in the usa because of white terror. Socially, the human condition of Blacks in the usa has gotten better in regions . For example, in massachusetts, the black populace has an exponential curve over time with positive relations to whites. the confederate states is exponential but aat far less growth or intensity. Social improvmenet isn't about money but treatment. How is a black person treated in the united states of america, a white country? It has een exponential. IN CONCLUSION, financially, the overwhelming majority of blacks havent changed in the united states over all . Financially, an extreme minority of blacks over the past forty years have grown in wealth tremendously, and have created the biggest gap between the fiscal poor of their own populace. Said extreme minority hasn't grown in populace exponentially, but ther wealth has. Socially, gardless of financial condition, it has been a slow growth. In opposition to the financial terror white people placed on black people, the social patchwork of whites have made zones of decency for black people to live variably in the usa in parallel, not changing the financial condition but the social condition. Where from 1492 to 1980 the patchwork predominated. Mississippi isn't california, Louisiana isn't New York. from 1980 to today, as the usa has become a multiracial country financially with enough non white european christian male wealth in it, to have a fiscally wealthy populace that has representation across the human spectrum, the social condition has grown dramatically. And it is clear for all to see, the usa has competing populaces over the future identity of the usa. IT hasn't gotten violent or in aclear tribal multivide , yet but it is headed that way, unless something can preoccupy all groups to each groups benefit. But I don't see that or comprehend that on the near horizon. Post SCript When many people talk about the united states of america today, they forget that the usa was always multiracial in the population, but never multiracial in who ruled. white rules, christian rules, male rules,heterosexual rules, immigrant rules. And no matter what non whites like black folk, non christians like muslims , non males like woman, non heterosexuals like homosexuals , non immigrants like first peoples did, whether success of failure , they acted under white, christian, male, heteroseuxal, immigrant power. But, in the near fifty years since nineteen hundred and eighty, the multiracial growht among the fiscally wealthy has pushed the question of identity. A majoriy of fiscally poor whites who have a five hundred year heritage of winning over others, absent merit , using terror, want to do it one more time. to non christians, women, blacks, recent immigrants, the native american. The problem is, the culture the usa used to defeat the soviet union in the media front was more costly than many whites realized. The cold war has been done for circa thrity years but women aren't going back to the kitchen, blacks to the fields, immigrants to their countries, homosexuals to the shadows all for the white power community to have its place of domiannce as in the past. POST URL https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12771-are-things-better-today-than-40-or-50-years-ago/page/2/#findComment-82093 PRIOR EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/735-economic-corner-40-05162026/ NEXT EDITION COMMENTARY

I said the following initially 06212026 A Father's Day Solstice I love my father. And while I will not tell a personal story, for those are for me to know and enjoy [ though I admit I have written many things about my father or mother in my work]. When I think of my father and why my mother loves him so much, it is a line from the film, First Knight, when Guinevere was asked why she loved Arthur, her answer simulated what my mother said about my father. It is the way he wields power so gently. Thinking of my parents fathers, I can see why my father has his natural temperament, besides the temperament he was raised to have. When I think of my parents fathers I can see where I get my own natural temperament , and I am thankful for my father's specific guidance on the temperament of a male. Thinking of my parents parents fathers, I only know of half of them. The fiscal poverty of black people from the late eighteen hundred or early nineteen hundreds has a role to play in their exposure to modernity. But from what I can gather, the half of my parents parents fathers I don't know were Black men who worked all their lives , living with the financial legacy of enslavement to Non Blacks , in an environment controlled by non black people infatuated with making black life challenging. To the half of my parents parents fathers I know of, they each had a more financially fortunate stock, oddly based on non Black patronage , what I tend to call the Black one percent. And for those who may know, those whose spirits fly free are never gone for we have the gift of memory, where we can feel the past , in the present, whenever we want. I searched my public gallery for father's day and father work. I think an artist with years of work in their public gallery should be able to highlight any artwork for any occasion. I choose the following two works as most representing Father's for father's day. Tell me what you think. I have them below if you don't want to go anywhere. https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Dawanga-1015908954 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Henda-jr-and-the-Highest-Striker-1116366320 the search returns https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=father%27s+day https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=father DAWANGA DAWANGA CONTENT HENDA JR AND THE HIGHEST STRIKER HENDA JR AND THE HIGHEST STRIKER CONTENT

NYC has always had millions of people from the 1900s to today. What does that mean, one percent of a million is ten thousand. One percent of seven million is seventy thousand. One percent of ten million is a hundred thousand. NYC has never had one percent of its population murdered. If the FBI reports are true, someone has been lying about NYC.. For me the point is, it seems , that in the year two thousand and twenty six, the blacks and non blacks who needed to create a myth about violence, are no longer relevant and the truth of nyc can come to the foreground in media. I wish in years past, when Harlem was black this could had happened, but I comprehend the agenda of the black + non black people who supported this view for thier agendas. the non black supporters were multivided into :those who simply dislike black people and like to speak ill of black people which is a long heritage among many non black peoples., immigrants who didnt want the crime or illegality of their immigration from being news and supported any ill speak to black dosers as they knew it would highlight in white owned media, the nypd or other law enforcement agencies who used the media perception to gain alot of government funding that strengthened the nypd to have a quantity of members beyond the city's need but within the nypd's need to be a fiscal + bureaucratic organization so powerful that now in two thousand and twenty six they are above the law or above being regulated efficiently, real estate industrialist who used the media perception to augment the evaluation of the real estate market which is solely based on speculation , which means what people see, not what people calculate. The black supporters are multivided into the following: a set of black people as a minority paired group to a non black group above [blacks who have a heritage of black hate as much as non blacks who have a similar heritage of hating blacks, black immigrants who wanted the same cover over their own illegality or criminality in their immigrant status like non black immigrants, black law enforcers who joined non black law enforcers in using the media perception to grow the position or stature of the law enforcement populace they are apart of, black real estate owners who have wanted to use the media position for the same real estate games their non black counterparts do ] , the black church who has never forgiven the larger black populace for leaving the black church after the black church failed to get results in the mid nineteen hundreds [the black church made a great error, they positioned the black populace using their role/status to have a peaceful relationship with the nonblack but the black church miscomprehended that the majority of black people in the usa never accepted or desired the incremental non violent plan that the church put forward and tied with white violence over time, as jamesbaldwin alluded to, black people started to ask, when is this going to be over in the usa, when will freedom occur and the black church has only been able to answer with faith which isn't an answer ], the black one percent, the top of black business [ many of black business leaders /leadership populace from early 1900s believed that black business could figure out how to do anyhing, but they miscalculated that the majority of black people in the late eighteen hundreds never believed in the usa or its fiscal capitalism mythos, they were simply too fiscally poor to leave or had no where to go to, Black immigrants come to the usa to make money, Black DOSers want to leave the usa for freedom, these are not the same ] statistic from nyc, and i know these numbers are not including the people uncounted for in NYC https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/historical-population/nyc_total_pop_1900-2010.pdf this is from the FBI and covers all of New york state [they say in 1989 only 2000 people were murdered in all of new york state] https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/nycrime.htm FROM URL BELOW NYC Hits Record Lows in Murders and Shootings Through May 2026 Last updated 19 minutes ago Official NYPD data from January to May shows 102 murders, down 20.9% from last year and the lowest since tracking began decades ago. Shooting incidents fell 5.7% to 247, with victims down 7.1% to 289; major crimes dropped 6.2% citywide. Mamdani, the city's first Muslim and South Asian mayor sworn in January, credits community programs and public safety investments, while NYPD highlights gun seizures and focused patrols. Supporters praise the leadership, but skeptics question underreporting, even as experts confirm NYC's homicide rate is now the lowest in over 100 years. URL https://x.com/i/trending/2068522487248310662

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But, I do know that everyone who is alive today plus old enough to read knows of the work titled "How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood?" from Nada S. Q. Earl The two hundred and twenty three thousand one hundred and thirty seven [ 223,137 ] magnum opus published 1964 by Planning Parrot , available in every language. We all know the publication of the book has two uncommon factors. 1) The author made every printing a new edition. 2) The author didn't make a prologue to any edition. Your task to unlock whimsy is to take your edition of How~ and make the #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #2Apr 1, 2026 #BlackHistory337 is about the time between Black History Months, when many people including some Black people don't make an effort to emphasize Black History. A way to cover the rest of the year, the remaining 337 days between each 28. In this edition we focus on the earliest films written/produced/directed/acted by Black people simultaneously. This leads to only one, Oscar Micheaux. Can you find evidence of earlier films written/produced/starring black people concerning the following themes? "Scary Film" ; A Son of Satan (1924)- a man sleeps in a haunted house, some of the cast from the stageplay Shuffle Along are in it. "Film Noir" ; The Exile (1931) + Underworld (1937) both the exile + underworld have proper femme fatale's like Double Indemnity. What do I mean? In Double Indemnity, 1944, the femme fatale played by barbara stanwyck is assaulting or murderous on her own. Fred McMurray isn't required for her to be a murderous or assaulting. To often in film noir's women are Featured in Groups color-me-club © 2026 HDdeviant

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URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Juneteenth-2026-CRLiterature-BlackHistory337-1346548011 CONTENT #BlackHistory337 is about the time between Black History Months, when many people including some Black people don't make an effort to emphasize Black History. A way to cover the rest of the year, the remaining 337 days between each 28. Juneteenth represents the first major event for Black people in the USA. The reason it isn't independence day or the colonies or states is because during all those times Black people were enslaved to Whites. Whites enslaved Blacks in the lands that became the USA and during the USA itself, as a law of the land, from 1492 to 1865. So for Black people in the U.S.A. the birth of the USA didn't change the condition of Black people. Most of the Black people who fought for the independence of the colonies from the english empire were enslaved to whites in the usa after said independence. But, the end of the War Between The States, commonly called The Civil War , did represent a true change for Black people as legal enslavement, which was legal in the english colonies or the usa itself, became illegal for the first time. Lift Every Voice And Sing's lyrics was written by James Weldon Johnson while the musical accompaniment was made by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson in 1905. Lift every voice and sing, 'Til earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the list'ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on 'til victory is won. Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come, over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, 'Til now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus far on the way; Thou who has by Thy might Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee, Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee; Shadowed beneath Thy hand, May we forever stand, True to our God, True to our native land GALLERY L Literature Lift Every Voice and Sing T-Shirt: Celebrating BlaCelebrate Black history, heritage, and pride with L Literature Lift Every Voice and Sing T-Shirt: Celebrating BlaCelebrate Black history and culture with J Literature James Weldon Johnson Negro National Anthem Lift every voice and T Literature The Freeman's Complaint ~The Freeman's Complaint , a late response to the Slave's complaint Forever! was wrote by my forebear long ago a dreamy exaltation, to know to reach where our ancestors sew before unwanted immigrant woe However! I ponder unsure from where I lo no shackles , white heritage tow to embrace the easy Aquilow forlease my black blood 's coveto However! time give far more than the past can kno Black moderns have freedom to grow to other plus our old blood's mow Forever! is not for most one ro However! I can see a wisdom's cando my forebears want stars unsow to accept failed plans but trow and be past vowfree to any pro Nowever! I wish all skinkin good fortuno even if path's differ in glow or I doubt success while a said tow Now to happiness , Forever! so from Richard Murray NOTES: first line from the last line of The Hope Of Liberty, page 10 , THE SLAVE'S COMPLAINT.[ Forever! ] "forever" meaning for eternally "exaltation" meaning a rising "to know" meaning toward knowing "immigrant" J Literature Juneteenth 2023The Ancestral Tree + Brah Soul Sun images plus poetry below is for Juneteenth 2013. The date is June 19th based on the date of when general order number 3 was proclaimed, stating all enslaved in the state of Texas was free. < wiki information , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._3 ; image of original form , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._3#/media/File:General_Order_No._3.png > . HeadQuarters District of Texas Galveston Texas June 19th 1865. General Orders No. 3 The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, “all slaves are free.” This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. 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URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Juneteenth-2026-Colormeclub-BlackHistory337-1346555304 CONTENT #BlackHistory337 is about the time between Black History Months, when many people including some Black people don't make an effort to emphasize Black History. A way to cover the rest of the year, the remaining 337 days between each 28. Juneteenth represents the first major event for Black people in the USA. The reason it isn't independence day or the colonies or states is because during all those times Black people were enslaved to Whites. Whites enslaved Blacks in the lands that became the USA and during the USA itself, as a law of the land, from 1492 to 1865. So for Black people in the U.S.A. the birth of the USA didn't change the condition of Black people. Most of the Black people who fought for the independence of the colonies from the english empire were enslaved to whites in the usa after said independence. But, the end of the War Between The States, commonly called The Civil War , did represent a true change for Black people as legal enslavement, which was legal in the english colonies or the usa itself, became illegal for the first time. JUNETEENTH PERSONIFICATION lineart available GALLERY OF INSPIRATION if you are inspired to create lineart, use the hashtag #Juneteenth2026 MORE INFORMATION https://juneteenth.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_Every_Voice_and_Sing https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/09/us/lift-every-voice-and-sing-trnd/ https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/638324920/american-anthem-lift-every-voice-and-sing-black-national-anthem https://web.archive.org/web/20150216231459/http://www.nationalconvocation.org/Portals/NC/SELAH%202013%20WINTER%20WEB%202-7-13.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:What_is_Juneteenth_video_about_the_House_Democrats.ogv https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R44865 https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/discrimination/celebrating-freedom-juneteenth-and-emancipation-day-commemorations-richmond-va/ THE MONTH OF JUNE Black337 post #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #4Jun 2, 2026 #BlackHistory337 is about the time between Black https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/BlackHistory337-2026-2027-4-1339274920 #juneteenth #blackhistory337 #black337 #jamesweldonjohnson #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #personification