Philadelphia Inquirer, July 4th, 2010
‘It is a well known fact, that black people, upon certain days of publick jubilee, dare not be seen after twelve o’clock in the day . . . I allude particularly to the Fourth of July!”
Beware encroaching government powers
In 1813 in the midst of a war, Pennsylvania considered legislation that would have virtually reinstituted slavery in the Commonwealth. We still exhibit these reactionary tendencies in times of crisis. Witness sb1070, Arizona’s new law.