Why do we celebrate the 4th of July? Yes, we are celebrating AN independence but is it YOUR independence. For many of us it is simply tradition, but in re-learning and "shaking off indoctrinations" it may be time to SHAKE THIS HOLIDAY LOOSE. That's right. Let it go. Don't fight it......just ...

Morgan Freeman reads the words of Fredrick Douglass addressing a white audience about the Fourth of July. A speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852Mr. 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 ...