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Article: Independence Day. (Sisterspeak).(planning personal independence)(Brief Article)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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SISTERS, it's our Independence Day. This July 4 is not only the country's holiday, but it's also a good day to declare your freedom from despair, defeat and depression.
July 4, 2002, will probably be the biggest since the bicentennial with much climbing on bandwagons, flag-waving, parade-going and red-white-and-blue-wearing. But as Frederick Douglass said in July 1852, what to the American slave is your Fourth of July? While we can appreciate the patriotic outpouring, especially in light of September 11, if we are still slaves of negative thinking and a negative lifestyle, what's the point? That's so 9-10. In the new Hollywood lingo, selfishness, greed, envy, ...