What to a Slave is the 4th of July?

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), former slave, abolitionist, US consul to Haiti and much more, gave a famous speech on July 5, 1852, indicting the hypocrisy of this country when slavery still existed.

As we read this speech, and recall the horrors of the past 1.5 years of Nazi Trump's presidency, we must ask why did 62 million people, slightly less than half of the voting population in 2016, vote for a man who started his campaign, and continued throughout his campaign and since, by calling Mexicans rapists, drug dealers and criminals, as he kidnaps and drugs immigrant children? How is it that he could still have 42% approval? A person who engages in such name-calling is totally unfit to hold any office. We still have a nation of racists and lunatics. Not only is the domestic racism and 50% poverty still with us, the war machine abroad is still murdering our fellow workers to make the oil companies and munitions makers richer, and of course, drains the American economy, yet there is no mass protest of the war machine.

The speech is from:
https://www.thenation.com/article/what-slave-fourth-july-frederick-douglass/
and is quoted in part here:
"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 sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, 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 these United States, at this very hour."

"Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival."