From a blog:
Very glad to be associated with this project, if only as a man who somehow looks like the “David W. Blight” who appears in videos associated with the project. (Perhaps not the only person ever associated with the pen name, that happens sometimes.)accompany and guide the Union effort to crush chattel slavery in the Southern states that still maintained it.
Frederick Douglass is something like “the most interesting Republican”, an American figure with enduring relevance for African-American rights and much more besides. The country he needed? He made it him self, by fashioning a social movement to
He was an American success by the standards of his era, which were exacting and unforgiving. (The newer TV program devoted to him shows more of this.) He was also a sharp political mind, perhaps the first to adumbrate a sensible radical egalitarianprogram cutting across racial divisions for a United States he somehow belonged to, even if he belonged to no one else.
And yet in talking about Frederick Douglass I somehow end up talking about the “Q-Tip tautology”, i.e. Q-Tip’s words in De La Soul’s “Me, Myself, and I”: “black is black”, something Douglass was and which I am not. It — is — reallybest — not — to — be — the — expert — on — others.
Jeffrey Rubard
On Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 12:03:20 AM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
From a blog:
Very glad to be associated with this project, if only as a man who somehow looks like the “David W. Blight” who appears in videos associated with the project. (Perhaps not the only person ever associated with the pen name, that happens sometimes.)
accompany and guide the Union effort to crush chattel slavery in the Southern states that still maintained it.Frederick Douglass is something like “the most interesting Republican”, an American figure with enduring relevance for African-American rights and much more besides. The country he needed? He made it him self, by fashioning a social movement to
program cutting across racial divisions for a United States he somehow belonged to, even if he belonged to no one else.He was an American success by the standards of his era, which were exacting and unforgiving. (The newer TV program devoted to him shows more of this.) He was also a sharp political mind, perhaps the first to adumbrate a sensible radical egalitarian
really — best — not — to — be — the — expert — on — others.And yet in talking about Frederick Douglass I somehow end up talking about the “Q-Tip tautology”, i.e. Q-Tip’s words in De La Soul’s “Me, Myself, and I”: “black is black”, something Douglass was and which I am not. It — is —
Jeffrey RubardPretty sure the cover image was chosen intentionally along the lines suggested by the post title. "Hey Ya!" indeed kind of stuff.
On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 8:26:01 AM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
On Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 12:03:20 AM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
From a blog:
sometimes.)Very glad to be associated with this project, if only as a man who somehow looks like the “David W. Blight” who appears in videos associated with the project. (Perhaps not the only person ever associated with the pen name, that happens
accompany and guide the Union effort to crush chattel slavery in the Southern states that still maintained it.Frederick Douglass is something like “the most interesting Republican”, an American figure with enduring relevance for African-American rights and much more besides. The country he needed? He made it him self, by fashioning a social movement to
program cutting across racial divisions for a United States he somehow belonged to, even if he belonged to no one else.He was an American success by the standards of his era, which were exacting and unforgiving. (The newer TV program devoted to him shows more of this.) He was also a sharp political mind, perhaps the first to adumbrate a sensible radical egalitarian
really — best — not — to — be — the — expert — on — others.And yet in talking about Frederick Douglass I somehow end up talking about the “Q-Tip tautology”, i.e. Q-Tip’s words in De La Soul’s “Me, Myself, and I”: “black is black”, something Douglass was and which I am not. It — is —
(The subtitle is obviously a joke, too. "Liberated from the bonds of earthly servitude...")Jeffrey RubardPretty sure the cover image was chosen intentionally along the lines suggested by the post title. "Hey Ya!" indeed kind of stuff.
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