[Sam Cree]

Douglass escaped from slavery, educated himself, became an ardent abolitionist and advocate for blacks. I like this guy.

The rest of the speech can be read at the URL, or almost anywhere, for that matter.

[RockinRight]

He'd get slammed by black liberals (like Bill Cosby did) for saying that today!

[July 4th]

I thought this was going to be a thread about Earl Butz.

[GrandEagle]

I've never read this - anyone ever sent a like to this to "Rev" Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton?

Sounds like Fredrick Douglass just wanted to be an American citizen like everybody else.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Frederick Douglass, the ORIGINAL Black Republican

[hombre_sincero]

It is not what the black man wants -- it boils down to :

What will the black man do to raise himself from the depths of modern slave pens called the welfare-state?

Many have already freed themselves - just as did Justice Douglas over a hundred years ago all the way to the present time - but the power of the democrat slave machine keeps them down and powerless.

It has to be an individual effort or NOTHING is learned or earned. If it is not earned - it is definitely not respected.

[Sam Cree]

"If you will only untie his hands, and give him a chance, I think he will live..."

That one sentence sums everything up. It's exactly what the Democrats don't want, as they may no longer be able to count on the votes once the hands are untied.

[ovrtaxt]

No wonder they don't teach much about him in pulik skool.

[TexasRepublic]

While a majority do indeed stand on their own two feet, a too large minority want a free lunch and more.

[SE Mom]

Let him live or die by that. If you will only untie his hands, and give him a chance, I think he will live..."

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We have not followed this wise man's advice and we can see the results today. Liberal policy(s)has seduced many who were suffering into believing they were being given freedom. What they were being given was an insidious dependence.

[Paul_B]

Wonderful attitude. This needs to be circulated. Great find.

p.

[mikegi]

I don't give a damn what the black man "wants" because I ain't giving it to him. He can go out and make a life for himself in this country like everyone else.

[Lorianne]

Douglass was a true American hero. Up there with the Founders IMO.

[BIGZ]

Douglass escaped from slavery, educated himself

Education is the key, the era of manual labor jobs is past, without education no-one, Black, Brown, White, Green, Purple has an equal opportunity to succeed.

Education in the United States schools does little to historically solve the problem. Slavery taught in American schools insinuates the United States was totally responsible for the removal and transportation of slaves from Africa to the New World.12 million is the accepted number of slaves coming to the Americas. 5% of this total eventually found their way to what is now the United States, 95% landing in the Caribbean and South America. The United States after the Declaration Independence was basically abolitionist and in 1806 made it illegal to import slaves.

Lack of education is evident with the adoption of Muslim names and an affinity to the Muslim Religion, when the Muslims were among the first slave traders, walking Africans East to the Muslim countries. Slavery exists to this day in the Muslim countries.

United States schools teaching true history and not history to achieve a political agenda would go a long way in solving the race relations problems in our country.

Douglas is correct in every respect.

[rdcorso]

His words make so much sense yet millions of blacks never hear them.They are stuck with the incoherent rambling stupidity of Jessie Jackass instead.His tired old blame whitey rhetoric has become a joke to most white people and more and more black people see it that way as well.Just hand Je$$ie a bundle of money and he'll mumble whatever you want him to.

[rochester_veteran]

Frederick Douglass lived most of his public life in Rochester. As a major Stationmaster on the Underground Railroad he directly helped hundreds on their way to freedom through his adopted home city of Rochester, NY.

Frederick Douglass grave
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY

[TheForceOfOne]

Bling bling?

[kittymyrib]

Can you imagine what would happen if Justice Clarence Thomas, another self-motivated man, would give this exact speech? The race pimps and their enablers in the msm would be howling for his impeachment tomorrow.
After seeing the pictures out of NO, I'd answer the question thusly: 1)Sex without marriage. 2)Children without responsibility. I pray that the malignant curse of illegitimacy can be changed for some of these people as they escape the ghetto life and start over somewhere else.

[dfwgator]

I actually watched the Malcolm X movie. There was one great scene. Some lilly-white liberal college girl goes up to Malcolm and asks "is there anything I can do to help your cause?" To which, Malcolm simply replied, "No!"