by Mark Schuller
July 14, 2008
It’s Bastille Day, the commemoration of the French Revolution, when the frustrated masses lopped off the heads of the callous and aloof monarchy who reportedly said “let them eat cake” in response to news of bread shortages.
The French bourgeoisie who took to arms were fed off of the backs of slave labor, particularly from a country that was to become the second free republic in the Americas forged by slaves who had the audacity to believe that the Revolution’s slogan of liberty, equality, and fraternity applied to them as well.
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