A mural depicting Frederick Douglass in a chunky wristwatch, a slim-cut suit and crisp white Converse has divided the town of Easton, Md., in his birth county of Talbot.

  • RainfallSonata@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    “And I said, you know, these are the same young Black boys we’re trying to get to pull up their pants. We don’t need them aspiring to something like that.”

    You’re trying to get them to pull up their pants, but they shouldn’t aspire to wearing a suit, either?

    “It was a lot of work trying to get Frederick Douglass recognized in his own home,”

    That was his birthplace. Rochester, NY was his home.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      12·
      8 months ago

      In fact, it’s pretty fucking offensive to call the place where he was a captive slave “his own home.”