The holiday that we celebrate is Independence Day. July 4 is just the date. So why are so many using the term "4th of July"? To me, it smacks of an effort to downplay being patriotic. What do you all think?
2006-06-29 14:11:11 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
As an African American, I'd like to quote an ex-slave named Frederick Douglass. He made a speech which in part said:
"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 he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, 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 the United States, at this very hour."
2006-06-29 14:23:21 · answer #1 · answered by Geminess 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Im a Conservative Republican myself and I have thought of 4th of July as both 4th of July and Independence Day.
In fact believe in or not our 4th of July actually gets celebrated in Denmark (im not even kidding).
However I am so sick of the idea that our Flag offends some people in this Country, im like the Flag is the Symbol of our Nation, if one does not like the Flag they can always move to another Country and join the Flag burning over in that Country.
2006-06-29 21:25:17 · answer #2 · answered by MrCool1978 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always called in the Fourth of July and I'm a conservative Republican. Not everything is an attack on patriotism. I don't like the term "Independence Day." Too formal, too much like the movie title. Fourth of July IS Independence Day but it's informal like the country we live in. Relax!
2006-06-29 21:16:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude, get over yourself. Your not intelligent. The term "4th of July" had been intermixed with Independece day since the birth of the nation. Better question, why do morons want to make a big deal about everything?
2006-06-29 21:18:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
4Th of July is called 4Th of July because it is celebrated on the 4th of July. This answer didn't make much sense, much like the question.
2006-06-29 21:17:42 · answer #5 · answered by Huevos Rancheros 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very interesting concept! I never though about it that way.
However, Thomas Jeffersons last letter, before his death, was about this very subject. He wrote:
"May it be to the world, what I believe it will be ... the signal of arousing men to burst the chains ... and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form, which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. ... For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."
I hope this answers your question.
2006-06-29 21:14:17 · answer #6 · answered by Truth Seeker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like happy holidays? I think there is more important issues on the table. Just another distraction.
2006-06-29 21:20:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Semantics...that's all.
I can see where you are coming from but I don't read into it that much.
2006-06-29 21:32:14 · answer #8 · answered by Pretty_Trini_Rican 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋