[TheForceOfOne]

You know Sam, to my knowledge I have never heard Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton refer to Frederick Douglass in any speech.

All they talk about is oppression and being held down, oh and give me some money.

[eddie willers]

You know Sam, to my knowledge I have never heard Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton refer to Frederick Douglass in any speech.

You won't hear them mention Booker T. Washington either.

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.

Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."

[Sam Cree]

The thing that really gets me about that Douglass speech is that what he was asking for the black man is pretty much the premise of the founding of the United States, that men would be left alone by government. That idea doesn't seem to be accepted very universally anymore, not even here on FR.