“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth 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 denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.” Evaluate the reasoning Douglass uses in the passage by determining whether the conclusion is valid or invalid.
I think it's valid and that he's calling the 4th of July a hypocritical, hollow celebration? is that the right way to answer that?
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Yes I am, the problem is that I am just having issues evaluating the reasoning...
Well what do you think the reason could be?
well he feels this and that way like I said before because he is living in the exact antithesis of the values celebrated on the holiday?
Actually, yes it does
Ok good. Is your question answered then?
That it is, closing it now...
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