American Beauty—er, Hypocrisy
- Don't get Douglass wrong: slavery is bad all the time, but it looks even worse on the Fourth of July.
- If ideals like liberty and humanity and documents like the Constitution and the Bible were really important to Americans, Douglass argues, Americans wouldn't stand for slavery.
- Hold Douglass' drink while he goes off on American slavery for a little bit.
- But you know he's not wrong, Douglass says. Unless you really in your heart of hearts are okay with slavery, you have to admit he's right.