BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Frederick Douglas was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
Douglass wrote several autobiographies, notably describing his experiences as a slave in his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition.
Following the Civil War, Douglass remained an active campaigner against slavery and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Douglass also actively supported women's suffrage and held several public offices.
In 1872, Douglass became the first African-American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate of Victoria Woodhull on the Equal Rights Party ticket.
Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all peoples, be they white, black, female, Native American, or Chinese immigrants. He was also a believer in dialogue and in making alliances across racial and ideological divides and the liberal values of the U.S. Constitution.
When radical abolitionists, under the motto "No Union with Slaveholders," criticized Douglass' willingness to engage in dialogue with slave owners, he replied: "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
Frederick Douglas died on this day in 1895.
Critical race theory (CRT) is a cross-disciplinary intellectual and social movement of civil-rights scholars and activists who seek to examine the intersection of race and law in the United States and to CHALLENGE MAINSTREAM AMERICAN LIBERAL APPROACHES to racial justice."CRT is opposed to actual liberals like Fredrick Douglass.
The same Frederick Douglas who argued that slave-owners' lands should be redistributed to the freed slaves? Y'all love to cherry pick and use black historical figures to support the power of the ruling class they were famous for standing against.
What about WHITE HISTORY MONTH! It’s a little racist that we celebrate for a month and white people don’t get a white history month. But then if we did we would be racist. Double standards