What should I say about them? They are liars and history revisionists who do what they do to help Democrats gain power in the nation.
They are a destructive force that should be opposed and minimized at every opportunity.
You really don't see the 1619 problem here? What’s eminently actionable is that here is a man born into slavery and hating his country.
He reads the constitution. He reads how it was built. He reads its history from original sources. He realizes he obtained bad information at best, and at worst someone lied to him. The reality is that the Founding Fathers were great - tremendous even, for black Americans, and Douglass is ready to state these things.
He, as a former slave, becomes one of the best defenders of the so-called slaving Constitution and specifically is a defender of the so-called racist Founding Fathers.
This is a huge challenge for the 1619 Project as well as CRT. I want someone to tell me i’m wrong on this basis of 1619/CTR, _especially_ if quoting actual passages from the speech. (Both 1619 and CRT rely on Douglass as a pillar of their claims)