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Thank you very kindly for the recommendation!

2nd that phenomenal read

Was a great read! and eye-opening perspective

Facts one of my favorite books I've read

Thanks I will check it out.

What did he creat and what did he accomplish?

What original thought did he propose and what action within his life would qualify as heroic?

@@patricklosi3358 - He taught himself to read when it was illegal for black people to read. He could have been killed for the offense, yet he took the risk in order to lift himself up in life. He escaped from slavery and became one of the most respected voices in the US and abroad. He literally was a slave who went from rags to riches before the end of slavery. Presidents sought his counsel. What have you done? He is highly respected until this day. How long do you think you will b remembered and for what accomplishments?

He did not "teach himself to read." That's not probable for any human being. The information necessary to read and write was developed by Europeans and passed ON to Douglas through his family and Europeans who helped him. The concepts that he discussed regarding justice and liberty were entirely European concepts that he would not have any understanding of. His ancestors were slaves in Africa and his beneficiaries in America (specifically Massachusetts) were also Europeans. What MY legacy is really has no bearing on you or anyone else. The pursuit of truth is a righteous endeavor in and of itself.

How did this concepts develop and manifest in Africa?

When I moved to DC 10 years ago, my first act of tourism was to go to his house in Anacostia. Bought a book of his speeches in the gift shop 😊

So much has changed. And so little has changed.

It's amazing and sad how applicable this quote is in 21st century America.

@@jenerhart7025 what do you mean by 21st century?

@@arlonfoster9997 Not sure what you are asking. If you are asking what the 21st century is, I am referring to current times. If you are implying that I am limiting the application to the 21st century, you are mistaken.

@@jenerhart7025 what I meant to ask based on what I read your comment is whether or not you think there is still full equality in the United States

Juneteenth

These concepts, to include rights, a constitution, a Bill of Rights, equality under the law were not concepts Douglas would have known ANYWHERE but British dominion and the progeny of the mother country. Douglas was a moralists and one lacking in self awareness at that. He was not grateful for anything other than having been born than allowed to live and prosper in a part of the world where wealthy, non violent people afforded him a quality of life he, Africa and most of the world had never known. He was a prominent man of letters but that's it. He didn't have an original thought and wouldn't have any concept of philosophy, invention or mathematics were it not for the people he largely resented. He was the W.E.B. Dubois of the 19th century. Don't respond with non sequiturs, false equivalencies, appeals to morality, appeals to emotion, popularity or authority. As I said before, his list of accomplishments are for wanting and he didn't do anything to change the outcome of the future that already wasn't provided by those that preceded him and had the ability to do so.

Juneteenth wasn't made possible by Frederick Douglas, Dred Scott or Nat Turner anymore then the Thirteen Colonies won their freedom from the likes of Ethan Allen. Juneteenth (or the idea of a Gregorian or Julian calendar) are concepts only available to people who had been educated by Europeans. Certainly not Sub Saharan Africans.

@@Jennifer-ql5qfonly if you're from Texas

Who invented the photograph?

I wish children in school in the fifties and sixties were shown this doc in school. Very well done video. Thank YOU.

Oh, I can do you one better: I'm related to both John Brown and Ulysses S. Grant, because the three of us are all descendants of the Mathew and Priscilla Grant who Ulysses mentioned in him memoirs. (I am slightly more closely related to Brown than Ulysses, though).

Was there an African Frederick Douglas? How do we know?

Clarence Thomas?

Walter williams

Thomas Sole

@@switzjon8405 i dont think Sowell is a Rep.

​@@raudeloruna2600he is. He damn sure aint a Democrat hes probably an independent who votes Republican. Kinda like me I am not a Republican in from the south i lean towards the Republican party but im not one myself.

Compared to slavery in Africa? Arabia? Or what white slaves had to endure in the subtropics? How do you begin to measure that? Was it worse than what Slavs endured under the Mongol, Tartar, or Turkish yoke? Was it as bad as Europeans enduring hundreds of years of slavery by the Arabs in North Africa?

@@patricklosi3358 This is about Douglas

​@@patricklosi3358dont mind this moron. you have to realize bro that the US citizenship has been conditioned to believe that the African American slavery experience was the only one that matters. Most people believe that that was the only form of slavery and that the US was the only country practicing it. 😅

​@@patricklosi3358, which europeans were enslaved in North Africa? Where do you folk get your information from?

@Aces77777 I asked a very simple set of questions. You say "this is about Douglas." I say; and?

Was Freedom a concept Douglas would have understood if he was in Africa?

@@patricklosi3358 Yes.

Really? Where was the African Frederick Douglas? Slavery was widespread in Africa. That's why they were sold to Europeans. Where was Freedom? How come no one was writing about it Africa?

Where did he get his ideas from?

@@patricklosi3358 He read voraciously, but one of the first books he bought was The Columbian Orator, a bunch of speeches from throughout history that were thought to promote American ideals.

@@erraticonteuse I understand that. So he learned to read, write, advocate and understand complex concepts both philosophical and moral. But he couldn't have done ANY of those things without being in a European culture and with the assistance of Europeans. Sub-saharan Africans had no such concepts and his ancestors were slaves in Africa that were sold to Europeans.

Was there a concept of freedom in Sub-saharan African?

Separation of church and state.

I'm group preference is a phenomenal of biology so.....

But he didn't like living in America. I'm fact he was disappointed that he could never reproduce what ideals he had learned in America and brought to Africa.

@@patricklosi3358 THAT DOESN’T MAKE HIM ANY LESS SASSY!!!

Is being sassy an admirable quality? By itself? Doesn't seem like it would be worth noting unless it was accompanied by a noble quality.

@@patricklosi3358 YOU’RE NOT QUALITY!!!

@@patricklosi3358 WHAT YOUR NAME???

Absolutely✨🇺🇸✨💙✨

He probably wouldn't have said much of anything regarding oppression unless he was born into a European society.

Just look at interracial rape stats

What did he creat or build?

@@patricklosi3358 what does that have to do with anything?

Well I'm asking what makes him great? Simple.

How you like me

He was a Great Man 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Not just the “Black community” but ALL people. There’s ignorance and asinine individuals across the board. Race is a social construct to divide & control people in the first place. We will never see any real change in the world until we change the brainwashing that has been forced fed to us and start thinking for ourselves. When we do, we can then begin to actually see that we are ALL the same (human beings) underneath it all. There’s no fruit from dividing people by skin color besides to try to exude superiority over another “class” of people deemed as inferior. You don’t have to agree with me…I am not here to force anyone to change their way of thinking but just slow down, ask more questions and dig a little deeper…then maybe you will discover what I know to be truth. Peace & Love ☮️🫶🏼

@shanteabernathy8834 Unfortunately, if people don't listen to their own, what chance has anyone else in getting through to them

​@@punchy1325 Your statement shows your ignorance. Sad

@@punchy1325"their own". Stfu. We are all the same. Human. "....getting through to them" - like you have something worth teaching? Have a word. Your ignorance and hatred is deeply unpleasant.

@@a.psquickview2071 your statement doesn't mean anything that really is sad

Right

It's actually spelled M-a-r-x. You're welcome.

Handsome man. Love the spark in his eyes✨

Perhaps he was related to Karl Marx. After all, Douglas was mixed-race: half-Black, half-White.

LOL...really? Well, perhaps you're an idiot...rotflmfao!!!@@ncheedxx0109

Did he have an original thought?

The disrepct

😂 right. The TRUE pioneers 😂

What we take is that they no longer stand for those principles. Should we ignore everything that happened in the last 40 or so years?

Both political parties are anti black we are taking notes

@@emelynebaucicaut8995 did you get lied to about the big switch ?

​. It is you, who is missinformed. Or playing games ✨🇺🇸✨💙✨

​. Thank you for making it clear✨🇺🇸✨💙✨

Not true

He was a Hebrew? What are you basing this on?