I would rather have a Frederick Douglass Day than MLK any day.
There’s a reason we don’t celebrate a “Frederick Douglass Day,” and it’s due mostly in part to the fact that Frederick Douglass lambasted the Democrats on a regular occasion and brought to light the truths surrounding their ways.
The media, the Left, educators... they can’t have blacks reading the true history of their people from a man who lived it and worked his way through it to prosperity and historical significance for the same reason that Democrats didn’t want blacks learning how to read. An education, a TRUE education and one based in facts, is the quickest route to freedom.
Don't forget Booker T. and George Washington Carver. They are belittled nowadays by Communists who instead glorify Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner, and by ACLU Pinks who extol and advocate confrontation and conflict -- the familiar race-pimping gig that made them what they are.
But Carver showed us five times the productivity and inventiveness of any squadron of flying ACLU agitator-lawyers (think of the Tulia, Texas, case, when the ACLU was called out by a Communist lawyer); and Booker T. lifted up, rather than stirring up or agitating up, his fellow blacks.
One of history's great missed opportunities came in iirc 1910, when a prominent black nationalist asked to address the national convention of the Ku Klux Klan, and they refused to hear him. The mind swims at what such a colloquy might have accomplished, however grudgingly. They might have established some sort of consensus-to-disagree that could have provided a counterweight and rival social model to challenge the Marxist theses and rabble-rousing of the ACLU and the Left.