Ibram X. Kendi
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Scholar @BU_Tweets • Director @AntiracismCtr • @NationalBook Award Winner for #Stamped • #1 NYT Bestselling Author of #HowToBeAnAntiracist • MacArthur Fellow 🐍
25-01-2012 18:12:41
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Perhaps the greatest anti-slavery speech ever uttered is “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” by Frederick Douglass, in 1852. I wanted to make the speech more accessible. Here’s a thread with an abridged version of the speech we should reread every #FourthofJuly . 1/