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.
Haines and Marks, the couple behind the mural, are both white – as is the artist who made the piece.
Of course they all are. Who else knows what’s better for the black community and how to depict that community’s heroes than white people?
Yes seems like another case of Democrats forcefully “helping” black people to make themselves feel better.
What on Earth does this have to do with partisan politics?
“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.
In fact, it’s pretty fucking offensive to call the place where he was a captive slave “his own home.”
