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 In his article "Frederick Douglass Knew That Racial Identity Is No Antidote to Racial Injustice," Peter Myers writes - "Frederick Douglass, the greatest of all American abolitionists, possibly the greatest American champion of the cause of equal rights, was born 200 years ago in February 1818. "Perhaps the infant Douglass arrived on Feb. 14, as he liked to think, remembering a morning in his boyhood when his mother, enslaved as he was, walked miles to bring him a modest cake and called him her 'little valentine.'" Douglass learned to read from the wife of his slave-master, who rebuked her by saying it "would forever unfit him for the duties of a slave." From this point onward, Douglass understood that education was the key for Afro-Americans to move ahead in life. The article continues - "'Slavery,' Douglass remarked presciently a month after the end of the Civil War, 'has been fruitful in giving itself names … and you and I and all of us had better wait and see what new form this old monster will assume, in what new skin this old snake will come forth next.'" Today's welfare system has resulted in perpetual dependency for a large portion of today's Afro-Americans: I know this because I've been working with them for seven years to help find better jobs. Dependency is a form of slavery, just as hard to break free from as it was before the Civil War. And the "Racial Identity" name is just another form of it, to keep them separate rather than allowing them to integrate fully into mainstream American life. Get the whole story: read the full article & get our free weekly newsletter: subscribe below! |