The brutal truth is that a mainstay of America’s continuing racial divide is its harsh and continuing mistreatment of Blacks. This can be directly traced to the persistent and pernicious legacy of slavery. On that monumental July 4th weekend day one hundred and sixty-eight years ago, Douglass rose before the Anti-slavery group in Rochester, New York to speak. He harshly challenged and mocked America’s flowery words of liberty and freedom with the question, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Douglass’s question still awaits an answer.
