Reblogged from Humor in America:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb_sqh577Zw&feature=player_embedded

An excerpt from Frederick Douglass's 1852 speech, "What to the slave is the 4th of July?"  An example of a use of humor (specifically his call to mockery at approximately 3:00) of a great power.

One of our first two or three posts, which means we are a year old or so... (our official birthday is August 11th).