Freedom defenders require empathy.
Commit to pro-empathy freedom governance.
Click on the Currier and Ives print of Independence Hall, 1776, for a 14-minute YouTube video of a dramatic reading of the US Declaration of Independence, narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Freedom defenders require empathy. And that moral freedom lesson demanding manumission, a politics of care, was preached strongly in Pennsylvania and Delaware pulpits. Quakers had demanded the end of slavery and good treatment of Indians long before Virginia’s Jefferson and his committee and the Continental Congress passed a final version of the US Declaration of Independence. Nevertheless, empathic morality influenced Jefferson’s first draft, listing the slave trade as one of the “facts” for which the colonies would hold King George accountable in their declaration. But in the end, Jefferson's condemnation of slavery as “a cruel war against human nature itself” was overruled by an anti-Quaker cruel morality in the Colonial Congress.
Freedom defenders require empathy. And many Americans, especially women, people of color, and their white male allies, are feeling despondent on this particular July 4th in the face of the resurgence of forced pregnancies by conservatism's white supremacists. Nevertheless, what little freedom pro-empathy Americans do have is a trust RECEIVED AT BIRTH, built on the backs of the enslaved and native Americans who, along with their white allies, never stopped demanding their freedom. And even though Jefferson and others were flawed white allies, black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, wrote in 1852, “The principles contained in (the US Declaration of Independence) are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.”
Freedom defenders require empathy. And pro-empathy Americans must recommit themselves to the responsibility to protect and promote our pro-empathy freedom trust. One way you could consider recommitting to the pro-empathy freedom trust is to invest 14 minutes and watch the dramatic reading of the US Declaration of Independence performed by Kathy Bates, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Mel Gibson, Whoopi Goldberg, Graham Greene, Ming Na, Edward Norton, Winona Ryder, Kevin Spacey, and Renee Zellweger with music by John Williams. And once you’re done watching this YouTube video consider a commitment to become a pro-empathy freedom voter.
Caring human beings and pro-empathy voters are the solutions,
Chuck
Charles Watts, Founder & CEO
Empathy Surplus Network USA
Wilmington, Ohio
833-MPATHUS
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