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@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.

@richardmurray I think you would be who could best fufill my request to print Frederick Douglass' famous 4th of July speech. I never tire of reading it. Its message is as timely today, as it was when he first delivered it.

Well, the answer to that question is, it is unknowable. Given the popularity of published public domain books, if any are discovered they are quickly published.