Frederick Douglas quote
This, too, is from my Xanga.
Saturday, April 10, 2004
Okay, I finally decided that this journal is going to have quotes and some random blather from moi. Okay, here goes...
People in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place. they assign us that place; they don't let us do it ourselves nor will they allow us a voice in the decision. they will not allow that we have a head to think, and a heart to feel, and a soul to aspire...that's the way we are liked. you degrade us and then ask why we are degraded-you shut our mouths and then ask why we don't speak-you close your colleges and seminaries against us, and then ask why we don't know more. --Frederick Douglass in one of his first recorded antislavery speeches, as quoted by Don't Know Much About American HistoryI think that this is pretty much true today as well. I mean there is all this talk about equality, etc. When it comes to actuality, though, it just isn't there. White people can do and be without ever having to take into consideration the ramifications of their actions. Black people are always trying to present themselves in ways to uphold the race or acting plumb crazy in defiance of the notion that upholding the race is necessary.
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