I read Frederick Douglass' "Narrative" last month. I'd pay good money to hear him weigh in on the idea that the presidency is "reserved for white European descendants". Did you know that he (Douglass) once kicked the @$$ of the "slave breaker" whose tender care he had been entrusted to? The only reason he didn't end up dead for it is because it would have ruined the reputation of the "breaker" if made public, so it went unreported. LOL.
This is the passage.....
At one time Mr. Douglass was travelling in the state of Pennsylvania, and was forced, on account of his colour, to ride in the baggage-car, in spite of the fact that he had paid the same price for his passage that the other passengers had paid.
When some of the white passengers went into the baggage-car to console Mr. Douglass, and one of them said to him: “I am sorry, Mr. Douglass, that you have been degraded in this manner,”
Mr. Douglass straightened himself up on the box upon which he was sitting, and replied:
“They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, but those who are inflicting it upon me.”