@Kazuhira Miller I wanna tell you that true democracy does work and it's got nothing to do with Marxism, but I am scared of your answer so instead I'll tell you to have a nice day. ;D
@@roosterball69 Behind the State there is always people, though. When someone represents the State, who do they really represent? The government that appointed them? Why should higher ups in state governments have that power rather than the people?
@@MirzaAhmed89 Yes, or by an ayatollah. But we must remember that people like NHJ don't worry about things like whether it makes sense or not, etymologically.
Glad to see this. I recently read a bio of Douglass, and was surprised to see the same arguments: the other side said the Constitution was so evil it had to be scrapped, but they had no plans for what would replace it. Douglass argued for what we have now: amendments that affirm liberty. Sad state of affairs that it's almost 200 years later and people don't know about it.
Critical race theory is such an insult to the legacy of Frederick Douglas. He was actually a slave facing terrible racism yet still had faith in the promises of the founding principles, while many modern people that have never known anything close to the horrors that Douglas faced reject these ideals and the accomplishments of the struggles that followed.
Was Frederick Douglas a US Citizen? Yes or No...because even he knew that The Constitution and this Country was not created for the Black Men and Women... So I dont understand, why is it that ppl bring up Frederick Douglas and lift up his Words and do not realize that since that even when Died...Frederic Douglas was never made a US Citizen. Never.
Frederick Douglas just believed that somewhere under that racist core white people can possibly be human and treat others as such. But it was a bit to late for the millions that suffered before him. After Douglas lived white America and the so called constitution continued to show its horns.
CRT is not what this is about for the umpteenth sins about pure racism, plain and simple. To solve your ignorance on this matter, please read his conclusion to the “glorious” speech which goes like this: “Fellow-citizens! I will not enlarge further on your national inconsistencies. The existence of slavery in this country brands your republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretence, and your christianity as a lie. It destroys your moral power abroad it corrupts your politicians at home. It saps the foundation of religion; it makes your name a hissing, and a bye-word to a mocking earth. It is the antagonistic force in your government, the only thing that seriously disturbs and endangers your Union. It fetters your progress; it is the enemy of improvement, the deadly foe of education; it fosters pride; it breeds insolence; it promotes vice; it shelters crime; it is a curse to the earth that supports it; and yet, you cling to it, as if it were the sheet anchor of all your hopes. Oh! be warned! be warned! a horrible reptile is coiled up in your nation’s bosom; the venomous creature is nursing at the tender breast of your youthful republic; for the love of God, tear away, and fling from you the hideous monster, and let the weight of twenty millions, crush and destroy it forever!”
Falsified US history by The NY Times - the truth about 1619. It is full of lies and deceit: www.independentsentinel.com/falsified-us-history-by-the-ny-times-the-truth-about-1619/ .
Imagine Frederick Douglas came back to life today: “So the Democratic Plantation owners are still trapping blacks in misery, and are still hating Lincoln and Grant, looks like nothing has changed for almost 200 years!”
The most hilarious thing about the 1619 project is that I'm a direct descendent of one of the first slaves to arrive. I am white, my ancestor who was a slave was eventually freed and her family lived free. Some of my free black ancestors fought in the revolution.
@@1971Blubear How do you know the Europeans were free? There were a few but not many at that point. The ones that fought & one the Revolution were Scot's. And a bunch of them were brought over as slaves. They hated the English. Your Constitution is fashioned from Scotland's and everything they endured from the English. England was our mortal enemy thru the Wars 1812-1815 and the Civil War.
@@1971Blubear we should never compare ourselves to anyone else or others to others for that matter, Who is more free Jack on the titanic walking around without a home or all of the millionaires on the boat?
@@ryanparkercolour “I am my own master” Frederick Douglass. Until we start emotionally and mentally emancipating ourselves we will not be free. To stop going back to try and draw from an empty well, that will never give us the validation you’re seeking. Stop going back to the abuser, revisiting the problem as a cloak of victimization because it’s familiar, it feels good to be a victim it’s the devil you know. Go forward, live in freedom. The real challenge is learning to be free, releasing yourself from mental chains. Blacks are emotionally enslaved and don’t know how to live free. Continuing to go back will not produce the utopia you seek. Healing wounds yourself, Not trying to get, get from “someone” who will never give you what you need. You’re still seeking validation instead of getting it from yourself. Your rich lineage. Emancipate yourself and learn to live in freedom. The slaves would literally die to have the freedom and opportunities we live today. Be free.
5th amendment: “nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” Assuming that *being black* and *in the south* isn’t remotely “due process of law”, I’d argue that the nation was founded on liberty and that slavery in the south was done via misinterpretation of the constitution and Abe Lincoln had to begin the process of creating the 13th amendment to make it clear that people were not to be born into slavery
@@vaclavcervinka65 yes we are supposed to be a republic to avoid THEY TYRANNY OF DEMOCRACY. Which democracy is just 5 wolves and 2 sheep voting in what’s for dinner
@@gageczajkowski7755 I understand your concerns. But who would choose the public officials, if not the people? Would the positions be hereditary, or perhaps chosen by a handful of rich and powerful people? Democracy is far from perfect, but the alternatives seem worse. They have been worse in the past anyways.
@@vaclavcervinka65 We are a Constitutional Republic. The issue with Democracy is that it disregards the rights of the individual in favor of the rights of the majority. We still have our voices heard without being thrown aside by the "tyranny of the majority". The one thing that the founding fathers, wisely, tried to avoid. We have many of the benefits of a Democracy, with very few of the downsides. And it has worked exceedingly well, considering our Constitution is the longest standing one ever written and our country has become one of, if not the, most powerful in such an incredibly short time comparatively to other nations. That's to name a few things.
@@Shackattack85 yes, we're in a mess. The change to mail in ballots right before the election was either stupid or underhanded, providing an unaccountable election result. We need to get this right.
@@1776concernedcitizen right and as a concerned tax paying citizen how are we supposed to entrust the federal entities and the experts and their results? These entities and checks and balances have been tainted and decaying for decades bc again of the poor voting records of republicans and democrats.
@@Shackattack85 we can't trust any of them. The establishment Republicans are as bad as the Democrats. We need to ensure that we elect principled people who believe in the constitution and defend liberty over all else. We all seem to vote for what's in our own interests over principle. That's a big problem. Now that half of the country is willing to go socialist things are going to get worse unless there's an awakening.
@@1776concernedcitizen the best way to control socialism is by getting mainstream republicans to get back to their conservative roots. They’re as big spenders as democrats they don’t care about our extremely unhealthy National debt. They cheer massive crony capitalism bailouts and are extremely financially irresponsible as democrats. Socialism in America is ultimately unaffordable without taxing the middle class and upper class into nothing. Socialism here would ultimately have to be funded on our imaginary unchecked National debt/credit. If all these RINOs would grow some balls and get back their roots they would crush the liberals pretty quickly. Also it’s time for conservatives and religious republicans to be ok with gay marriage and abortion to a degree. These would all fall under smaller federal government and individual liberties. That again mainstream republicans make an issue which makes the republican part lose at the voting booth.
What blows my mind is that in 1619, the colonies were under English rule! Why do they tend to forget to mention this? This is why Frederick does not get the love! He understood the documents, Constitution and DI, better than our current academic chattering class on tv!
Oh my goodness, you made an excellent point! Folks really do need to learn the TRUE part of that history! There's so many documentaries out there that really fill in the blanks of what we were taught in school and correct alot of the half truths we were taught! During the Covid-19 lock down, I've watched PBS (Love Professor Henry Louis Gates) , Netflix, History Channel, Samuel Jackson's "Enslaved", Prime Video & some others. Learned & filled in some gaps of information that made me say, ohhhh...that's why this system is set up this way or that's why the people over here feel this way or that's how the economic & educational system came to be! Now that we have all of this technology and information at out finger tips, there's really no excuse for more folks to be more informed and to have a better educated opinion of what's going on in the world and how we arrived at this point in time of our history! Hopefully have more compassion and be more humble? I'm just a part time brain surgeon so what do I know🤷🏾♂️
Nikole Hannah Jones literally defends the British in her 1619 project despite the British conquering half the world and bringing slavery to their colonies in 1619. The US declared independence from Britain in 1776, the constitution was ratified in 1788. The Northwest Ordinance was written in 1787 directly off the Declaration of Independence (WITHOUT slavery). Jefferson banned the slave trade in 1808. Our country has been far from perfect in the past, but a lot of our history is using founding ideals to live up to founding ideals and achieve equality. Nikole Hannah Jones chooses not to recognize this, but more Americans should.
@@dubszn-bz6dv man you people are killing me. You keep trying to find fault in her. The so called constitution wasn't written for black people. It's like you try to make slavery and what America did not such a big deal. But that's the way America is and always will be.
@@dubszn-bz6dv actually you are quit wrong in many of your assertions. Nichole Hannah Jones is not defending the british at all. At the point she starts it all British. What she argues is Virginia's & South Carolina to a lesser point and how their interest influenced law and policy. Also Jefferson did not ban thr slave trade in 1808. This was a negotiated date at the framing of the constitution and was put in so the southern states would accept the terms of the constitution. Also this date only banned the importation of slaves. It did not end slavery and the demand further influenced the domestic slave trade and slave breeding. The 1619 project is a very good work but definatly has points to be debated and this is healthy. But to discount it as propaganda or narritive is not fair. Research, debate is what these things should be about.
What is this love for acting as if slavery is something that now needs to be admonished? Its like getting a whipping as a kid and then you are told how bad you were that day for the rest of your life. Slavery was just a fact of life in the 1600s, in fact, it was a fact of life long before then as people worldwide practiced it and it wasn't just based on color. European shores were raided and people taken slaves. This country literally fought a war over this issue and slavery ended. Did racism? Nope. Will racism ever end? Nope. But that to is the human condition as no mater what groups you make up there is tribalism. Look at the politics of the partys today. Is that hate any different than racism? Nope, in fact people will lie to get folks fired or not let them get a job, witness Kavanaugh for example. And that hate isn't bothered by hating on black folks if they are not of the correct party and mindset. So these folks that want to rewrite the history of this country because they still feel oppressed after thousands of white men died ending slavery get no sympathy from me when those same people will call a person like Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell racial names, in fact they disgust me as the same as any pro slavery person back then would because they demand a slavery of the mind and soul, not just the body, and thats beyond disgust
@@monsterhunter445 Slavery is completely counter to Capitalism. Capitalism is, and always will be, about free and honest trade between workers, businesses, and consumers so all sides prosper. Slavery and Capitalism is completely incompatible. You may be thinking of Corporatism or Consumerism. Both of those makes "slaves" of the less well off parties. I suggest reading The Wealth of Nations written by Adam Smith, one of the leading writers on the theories of Capitalism.
@@Stevarooni and yet the 1619 project claims our civil war wasn't over slavery. Like ALL modern leftist ideology it is contradicting, emotionally based and pushed by anti American Marxists.
But surely the counter argument to that is that institutions today are still racist, e.g. police more likely to shoot unarmed black person than unarmed white person.
@@conorlooney3295 The Washington Post has a data base for police shootings by year, race, whether the person was armed or not, and a bunch of other stuff. The difference in the number of black and white people that were shot isn't big. In one year there were more unarmed whites shot.
For starters, Democracy is not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution, nor the Declaration Of Independence. In Federalist papers 9 and 10, we learn the difference between a Republic and a Democracy, and which it is that our country was founded to be.
@@Didleeios88 exactly, right here in montana. Natives and others go missing every year with out ever being found. My state has a huge child human trafficking problem.
@@Lisa-hj8fh dirty secret: the cartels are major traffickers of women who are sold into sexual slavery. Democrats open border policies are making business boom for them.
Frederick Douglass is an American Hero. A legend. A warrior for freedom and justice for all people, regardless of race, sex, or political beliefs. A staunch defender of the one document that has guided us to where we are today enabling all peoples the right to vote, to be free, and to be left to their own path of choosing, the US Constitution. We should all be more like Frederick Douglass.
Here's a bigger issue: Progressives tend to view transatlantic slavery as being unique to the US. Transatlantic slavery was mostly concentrated in the Caribbean Islands and Brazil. And yet these places are lagging behind.
My favorite F Douglass quote which I remember when someone tries to paint a cause I believe in with a bad brush because some unsavory person also might want it: "I would unite with anyone to do right, and with nobody to do wrong."
Just for reference. One half to two thirds of colonists arriving at that time were indentured servants. They worked most of their adult lives to pay for passage. Their offspring would be free. Context people, Almost everyone arriving was a servant not just those with darker skin ...
Fredrick Douglass thought the U.S.Constituion was a racist creed, then he READ it and was astonished to find the perfect document and defended it for the rest of his life. But Douglass was a SUPERIOR american, this contemporary bunch are childish fools by comparison.
It's amazing to me that so many experts on this book have clearly never read it. One of the primary threads in the text is that the African Americans, who have lived in the United States much longer than most of their European counterparts, embraced and held dear the promises of the words penned by men like Thomas Jefferson. Even though, men like Jefferson, struggled to embrace them. It is a great book. And Frederick Douglass is certainly a major hero in the book. Don't be swayed by shallow analyses from fools on youtube. Read the book.
I have loved Frederick Douglas since the first report I did on him in the fourth grade. And shame on Nikole Hannah-Jones for all of her active efforts to destroy this country.
I propose the 1000 project based on the fact when Leif Erickson and the Vikings landed in North America. And we all know what Vikings are known for.... plunder, raping, enslaving, and pillaging. P.S. Has anyone seen the movie Pathfinder and saw what they did to the Native Americans?
Let's remember 1) the 1619 project is purportedly history *but* Hannah-Jones is a journactivist not a historian. 2) an actual historian advising Hannah-Jones highlighted glaring flaws or outright falsehoods in the 1619 project's narrative to Hannah-Jones, but H-J wasn't going to let facts interfere with the propaganda she wanted to push.
If Ms. Jones is so concerned with slavery, why not tackle these issues first: "As of 2018, the countries with the most slaves were: India (8 million), China (3.86 million), Pakistan (3.19 million), North Korea (2.64 million), Nigeria (1.39 million), Iran (1.29 million), Indonesia (1.22 million), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 million), Russia (794,000) and the Philippines (784,000)." Oh, right! It doesn't benefit her directly. Now I understand.
To be fair, you're making a bit of a nonsensical argument against her. Obviously her focus is on African slavery in the US and its relation to US history. This has nothing to do with worldwide slavery, especially as it is currently.
It would be necessary to dissolve the nation itself in order for all 'individuals' to experience liberty. As long as there are 'Americans' there will always be groups and no universal individual liberty.
"“The Accumulation of Wealth,” Frederick Douglass’s Paper, November 28, 1856 The Spartan lawgiver who discouraged the accumulation of wealth, because of its tendency to impair the liberties of his country, was fully justified in the extreme measures he adopted, by the universal experience of nations, and the fate of his own country; the fall of Spartan liberties dating from the introduction of wealth and consequent luxury of her citizens. His aim to exterminate wealth and refinement entirely, was, perhaps, not wise; it is not wealth of itself that produces the dreaded effects, but its accumulation in the hands of a few - creating an aristocracy of wealth, ready to be the tool of an aggressive tyranny, or to become aggressive upon its own account. With an increase of wealth comes an increase of selfishness, devotion to private affairs, and a contempt of public - unless politics can be made to minister to the all absorbing selfishness of the individual. The advocates of unbridled accumulation claim for their system, that it is founded on nature, that the faculty of acquisition is found existing in man everywhere and in all stages of development; that the world owes much to the enterprise developed by its influence; and that it would be shallow statesmanship to interfere with its action. We are ready to grant that the condition of man, cast as he is into the world naked, and surrounded by elements unfriendly to his continued existence, renders a degree of acquisitiveness necessary for the security of life; but is it just to plead this moderate degree of accumulation, indicated by nature, in justification of the unlimited hoarding of wealth, and monopolies of land, which has converted the entire civilized world into an abode of millionaires and beggars; which renders the enslavement of the peoples of the world possible, and shrouds the future of liberty with gloom? To look at the treasures of Paris, or London, or New York, and other centres of wealth, one might at first feel disposed to agree in the assertion that man is acquisitive creature, even in the extreme case claimed by the defenders of the present system, by which wealth is accumulated by the few, instead of being distributed, as it should be, among the mass, rendering none rich, allowing none to remain poor. A wider range of observation, however, including man everywhere, will show that with the vast majority of mankind, a satisfaction of the wants of nature is all that is sought; and even in those centres of selfishness spoken of, there are vast multitudes who would be thus satisfied, but that the rush and crash of the mighty machine of society compels them, in self-defence, to join in the rush for wealth. ‘Tis the old question, “whether ‘tis better to be a victim or a victimizer,” and they decide against being victims. Wealth has ever been the tool of the tyrant, the readiest means by which liberty is overthrown. A nation starting with free institutions and customs, begins to increase in wealth, and that wealth to accumulate in the hands of a few, and here is the lever by which, eventually and certainly, the liberties gained in a simpler age will be overthrown."
The Constitution does not redeem America's past with slavery or colonialism. Indeed, slavery was allowed to thrive under the Constitution and it took a war to end it. Colonialism continued even after the Civil War. Fortunately the Constitution can be changed. The great thing about America is that we can make it better, and we have made it better.
"But, such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine." ... "My subject, then fellow-citizens, is American slavery. I shall see, this day, and its popular characteristics, from the slave’s point of view. Standing, there, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery-the great sin and shame of America! " - Frederick Douglass, or perhaps Colin Kaepernick
Any attempt to encourage a wider view of the world should be encouraged. Learning more instead of stagnating with less is to be lauded. Please read both Frederick Douglas and the 1619 project, which, directly alongside Mr. Douglas' point of view, sees the constitution as a document that must be made to be true, for it wasn't when it was written. This video was poorly sourced to pit these two sources as even remotely opposed
The constitution isn’t necessarily the problem. It’s what plagues the republican and democrat party today....... The love affair between big business and our elected officials. Big business before/over we the people is why so many where enslaved. If liberals or progressives truly want equality they would support ideologies that reduce the love affair between big business and the federal government. You would look to reduce the size and scope of the federal government. These are all extremely necessary to have a truly equal society.
Frederick Douglass believed in individual liberty. Something that collectivists do not. This is why the Left hate this courageous and glorious American. Frederick Douglass was indeed a giant. A true American patriot.
Well technically we aren't a democracy, intentionally so as others in the comments have mentioned. We are a representative republic instead. There are similarities but also differences to try and avoid tyranny of the majority.
We're a democratic republic. Our representatives are elected democratically instead of being appointed by some sort of oligarchy (in theory) or being drawn by lottery or something.
Thank goodness reason has a vid on this. all the other think tanks etc that have vids on youtube criticizing 1619 Project are all cranks or worse. Heritage being the best among them, showing how bad the list is. Reason won't disappoint this moderate!
In today's world it might be officiant since the cost of living is SO SO much cheaper. But a hundred years ago most people worked full time just to put food on the table. Slave or not. All your energy went to surviving another day.
So if 1619 is the date when the US was founded because slaves were sold... do we then begin the history of Africa during the year when the first tribes captured and enslaved their rivals and sold them to the Dutch? Or are we teaching now the Dutch as the first cowboys who just wrangled peaceful tribes on horseback? Slavery is terrible but let's not pretend Africa was clean by any means in the trade.
Oh wow, how EXACTLY was the U.S. meant to be a democracy when neither the U.S. Constitution nor the Declaration of Independence mentions absolutely nothing at any level, and not even implied throughout ANY of the legal texts making up either of the documents.
I need to buy this book, and make sure my homeschooled kids read it... so that if and when they go to college, they can fight this leftist historical revisionism nonsense better and maybe save some of their fellow students.
A messianic jewish brother had some concerns for some homeschooling curriculum from some very far right sources. I think he was thinking antisemitism and revisionism history with a white supremacist tenor. Now I dont know what material you used for your kids
@@ka9fon I'm not quite sure what you're saying/asking here. As it is, I'm referring to future events... my oldest kid is only 11, and barely ready to start learning history with the level of detail this book entails.
The problem is voting as a right vs a privilege. If you give the vote to people who have no stake in consequences they will always vote selfishly at the expense of others. They are also the easily manipulated into believing they are the victim.
I guess I don’t see this piece as explaining very well what the conflict is. Is it just about the date? Are you tossing out the entire book and the historical narrative ideas over this one disagreement?
The Constitution established America as a Republic, rather than a Democracy. So in that sense, the Constitution is an undemocratic document. However, it is still glorious non-the-less.
I'm missing how F.D. is connected to the 1619 Project though. 1619 Project wants to rewrite history to say America was founded then, I get that much. But how is Douglas relevant to the discussion of rewriting history of a nation's founding date?
You’ve very much only stated a portion of Douglas’ statement about the glorious document and misrepresented his meaning. The glorious freed document is how it “ought” to be interpreted. Why don’t you use this, even better part of his speech? -> “Now, take the constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.” I KNOW why you don’t reference the end of THE SAME SPEECH. -> “Fellow-citizens! I will not enlarge further on your national inconsistencies. The existence of slavery in this country brands your republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretence, and your christianity as a lie. It destroys your moral power abroad it corrupts your politicians at home. It saps the foundation of religion; it makes your name a hissing, and a bye-word to a mocking earth. It is the antagonistic force in your government, the only thing that seriously disturbs and endangers your Union. It fetters your progress; it is the enemy of improvement, the deadly foe of education; it fosters pride; it breeds insolence; it promotes vice; it shelters crime; it is a curse to the earth that supports it; and yet, you cling to it, as if it were the sheet anchor of all your hopes. Oh! be warned! be warned! a horrible reptile is coiled up in your nation’s bosom; the venomous creature is nursing at the tender breast of your youthful republic; for the love of God, tear away, and fling from you the hideous monster, and let the weight of twenty millions, crush and destroy it forever!”
I’m not even sure the “1619” thing is technical true, since legal status of those first Angolans brought to Virginia was ambiguous. They were probably treated there as indentured servants, not slaves. They didn’t have much say in the matter, but many indentured servants didn’t. And I’d guess that 7 years indenture beats a lifetime of chattel. If I remember correctly, even the “indentured servants for 99 years” gimmick ( used by some English masters to get around the fact that there was little to no legal framework for slavery in English law) didn’t start being used for a decade or so in the Caribbean. Could be wrong about that, though.
"A worship that can be conducted by persons who refuse to give shelter to the houseless, to give bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, and who enjoin obedience to a law forbidding these acts of mercy, is a curse, not a blessing to mankind. The Bible addresses all such persons as “scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, who pay tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy and faith.” But the church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of die slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors. It has made itself the bulwark of American slavery, and the shield of American slave-hunters. Many of its most eloquent Divines. who stand as the very lights of the church, have shamelessly given the sanction of religion and the Bible to the whole slave system. They have taught that man may, properly, be a slave; that the relation of master and slave is ordained of God; that to send back an escaped bondman to his master is clearly the duty of all the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ; and this horrible blasphemy is palmed off upon the world for Christianity." - Frederick Douglass
Well, the US constitution is anti modern democracy. US constitution is based on classical liberalism and that is incompatible with MODERN democracy, since classical liberalism promotes limited goverment, induvidual rights and laissez faire capitalism. Ask yourself the following: Is slavery compatible with modern democracy or classical liberalism. Is segregation compatible with modern democracy or classical liberalism. Is the war on drugs compatible with modern democracy or classical liberalism. The list is long, but the short answer is modern democracy. The reason why is simple: in a modern democracy anything can be law either through represenetives or a majority popular vote. Democracy under classical liberalism means that the people decides laws either through represenetives or popular vote in order to protect life, property and liberty and nothing else!
Frederick Douglass, Free Man, American, Bad Ass.
Total Bad Ass, what an incredible thinker.
Dude is a legend
I’m getting a picture of him on my wall
@@fuzzeen1nja217 I don't blame you for that . He is so handsome along with all of his other admirable qualities!
Slaveocracy: The rule of the slaves ???
wut?
You can tell she's from the ministry of truth
Gotta give her a break, she paid for alot of titles but has no real education...a fact she'd proudly defend as 'morally pure' I'm sure.
She also apparently can’t spell.
Western universities need to stop being corporations: they need to stop creating diplomas that are products for just anyone who can pay.
@Kazuhira Miller I wanna tell you that true democracy does work and it's got nothing to do with Marxism, but I am scared of your answer so instead I'll tell you to have a nice day. ;D
“ Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”
-Frederick Douglass
if people could see the truth and understand how to behave appropriately there would be no struggle.
@@ucntcit ???
You mean lynching
All you need to know about NHJ is that when responding to legitimate criticism of her work, her first move was to play the race card
Her first move when I politely but firmly questioned her work (via Twitter) was to block me, moments after she gave a one-liner reply.
@@davidmeridian1288 I have heard that from multiple people. She's all about her echo chamber.
2nd, 3rd and 4th too!
No such thing as a race card..gtfoh
You do realize that she wasnt the only person who worked on this Project
0:18 "U.S. Constitution was undemocratic." Yes. That's intentional.
Exactly. Anti-democratic (anti mob rule/collectivism) and explicitly a Republican form of government (pro individual rights and private property).
@@familyfungi we have a representative democratic republic. People still vote.
I was JUST about to comment that lol
@@roosterball69 Behind the State there is always people, though. When someone represents the State, who do they really represent? The government that appointed them? Why should higher ups in state governments have that power rather than the people?
Don't worry, these ladies haven't even read it.
_"Slaveocracy."_
I don't believe she knows what it means, even if that word actually existed.
Not just that, but America and the british was not only the first to abolish slavery, but slaves had more rights than slaves in the rest of the world.
Sometimes I fell like people just make these words up. lol
Rule by slaves? Like theocracy being a state ruled by religious leaders like the Pope.
@@MirzaAhmed89,
Exactly.
She has no clue what she is talking about.
@@MirzaAhmed89 Yes, or by an ayatollah. But we must remember that people like NHJ don't worry about things like whether it makes sense or not, etymologically.
One of my first time machine goals is to attend a speech by Frederick Douglass.
I could spend my whole life reliving different past events
I think my first time machine goal would be to go back in time before 2020
That might be nice; right after I take Woodrow and Franklin for a time machine ride.
What a privilege that would be. How many listening then knew the legacy being built in their presence?
Not me I'm giving my father stock tips. So I can grow up part of the 1%
Jones winning a Pulitzer just shows how meaningless that award has become.
It was meaningless back when Walter Duranty won it too.
It's a new indicator of what NOT to read
@@andrewpriest9403 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
White people's words are meaningless because of hypocrisy
@@reggiehendrix1265 Well Reggie I hope you have done something with you life to add value to the human race.
Glad to see this. I recently read a bio of Douglass, and was surprised to see the same arguments: the other side said the Constitution was so evil it had to be scrapped, but they had no plans for what would replace it. Douglass argued for what we have now: amendments that affirm liberty. Sad state of affairs that it's almost 200 years later and people don't know about it.
Critical race theory is such an insult to the legacy of Frederick Douglas. He was actually a slave facing terrible racism yet still had faith in the promises of the founding principles, while many modern people that have never known anything close to the horrors that Douglas faced reject these ideals and the accomplishments of the struggles that followed.
Was Frederick Douglas a US Citizen? Yes or No...because even he knew that The Constitution and this Country was not created for the Black Men and Women... So I dont understand, why is it that ppl bring up Frederick Douglas and lift up his Words and do not realize that since that even when Died...Frederic Douglas was never made a US Citizen. Never.
Frederick Douglas just believed that somewhere under that racist core white people can possibly be human and treat others as such. But it was a bit to late for the millions that suffered before him. After Douglas lived white America and the so called constitution continued to show its horns.
CRT is not what this is about for the umpteenth sins about pure racism, plain and simple. To solve your ignorance on this matter, please read his conclusion to the “glorious” speech which goes like this:
“Fellow-citizens! I will not enlarge further on your national inconsistencies. The existence of slavery in this country brands your republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretence, and your christianity as a lie. It destroys your moral power abroad it corrupts your politicians at home. It saps the foundation of religion; it makes your name a hissing, and a bye-word to a mocking earth. It is the antagonistic force in your government, the only thing that seriously disturbs and endangers your Union. It fetters your progress; it is the enemy of improvement, the deadly foe of education; it fosters pride; it breeds insolence; it promotes vice; it shelters crime; it is a curse to the earth that supports it; and yet, you cling to it, as if it were the sheet anchor of all your hopes. Oh! be warned! be warned! a horrible reptile is coiled up in your nation’s bosom; the venomous creature is nursing at the tender breast of your youthful republic; for the love of God, tear away, and fling from you the hideous monster, and let the weight of twenty millions, crush and destroy it forever!”
Frederick douglass and booker t washington would be disgusted by the 1619 project
Falsified US history by The NY Times - the truth about 1619. It is full of lies and deceit:
www.independentsentinel.com/falsified-us-history-by-the-ny-times-the-truth-about-1619/ .
How do you know ?
@@realquietone68 You read about what they did and you read what they wrote. That's how you know: you read primary sources.
Imagine Frederick Douglas came back to life today: “So the Democratic Plantation owners are still trapping blacks in misery, and are still hating Lincoln and Grant, looks like nothing has changed for almost 200 years!”
I did a report on him back in highschool. They had 1 book about him so it was basically verbatim. 😁
He disrupted the narrative before it was the narrative.
The most hilarious thing about the 1619 project is that I'm a direct descendent of one of the first slaves to arrive. I am white, my ancestor who was a slave was eventually freed and her family lived free. Some of my free black ancestors fought in the revolution.
Free but still not free like a European ..
@@1971Blubear How do you know the Europeans were free? There were a few but not many at that point. The ones that fought & one the Revolution were Scot's. And a bunch of them were brought over as slaves. They hated the English. Your Constitution is fashioned from Scotland's and everything they endured from the English. England was our mortal enemy thru the Wars 1812-1815 and the Civil War.
@@1971Blubear we should never compare ourselves to anyone else or others to others for that matter, Who is more free Jack on the titanic walking around without a home or all of the millionaires on the boat?
@@ryanparkercolour “I am my own master” Frederick Douglass. Until we start emotionally and mentally emancipating ourselves we will not be free. To stop going back to try and draw from an empty well, that will never give us the validation you’re seeking. Stop going back to the abuser, revisiting the problem as a cloak of victimization because it’s familiar, it feels good to be a victim it’s the devil you know. Go forward, live in freedom. The real challenge is learning to be free, releasing yourself from mental chains. Blacks are emotionally enslaved and don’t know how to live free. Continuing to go back will not produce the utopia you seek. Healing wounds yourself, Not trying to get, get from “someone” who will never give you what you need. You’re still seeking validation instead of getting it from yourself. Your rich lineage. Emancipate yourself and learn to live in freedom. The slaves would literally die to have the freedom and opportunities we live today. Be free.
Why is that hilarious?
5th amendment: “nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”
Assuming that *being black* and *in the south* isn’t remotely “due process of law”, I’d argue that the nation was founded on liberty and that slavery in the south was done via misinterpretation of the constitution and Abe Lincoln had to begin the process of creating the 13th amendment to make it clear that people were not to be born into slavery
“ we didn’t mean that for the blacks “
We aren’t supposed to be a Democracy that’s the whole point
What else is America supposed to be, then? Ben Franklin's: "Republic, if you can keep it" quote comes to mind
@@vaclavcervinka65 yes we are supposed to be a republic to avoid THEY TYRANNY OF DEMOCRACY. Which democracy is just 5 wolves and 2 sheep voting in what’s for dinner
@@vaclavcervinka65 and Benjamin Franklin was right!!! We couldn’t keep it sadly
@@gageczajkowski7755 I understand your concerns. But who would choose the public officials, if not the people? Would the positions be hereditary, or perhaps chosen by a handful of rich and powerful people? Democracy is far from perfect, but the alternatives seem worse. They have been worse in the past anyways.
@@vaclavcervinka65 We are a Constitutional Republic. The issue with Democracy is that it disregards the rights of the individual in favor of the rights of the majority. We still have our voices heard without being thrown aside by the "tyranny of the majority". The one thing that the founding fathers, wisely, tried to avoid. We have many of the benefits of a Democracy, with very few of the downsides. And it has worked exceedingly well, considering our Constitution is the longest standing one ever written and our country has become one of, if not the, most powerful in such an incredibly short time comparatively to other nations. That's to name a few things.
Frederick Douglass is an American hero and Patriot of American ideals of liberty and justice.
Yes and republicans and democrats need to take notes bc their poor voting records are destroying our liberties as we speak.
@@Shackattack85 yes, we're in a mess. The change to mail in ballots right before the election was either stupid or underhanded, providing an unaccountable election result. We need to get this right.
@@1776concernedcitizen right and as a concerned tax paying citizen how are we supposed to entrust the federal entities and the experts and their results? These entities and checks and balances have been tainted and decaying for decades bc again of the poor voting records of republicans and democrats.
@@Shackattack85 we can't trust any of them. The establishment Republicans are as bad as the Democrats. We need to ensure that we elect principled people who believe in the constitution and defend liberty over all else. We all seem to vote for what's in our own interests over principle. That's a big problem. Now that half of the country is willing to go socialist things are going to get worse unless there's an awakening.
@@1776concernedcitizen the best way to control socialism is by getting mainstream republicans to get back to their conservative roots. They’re as big spenders as democrats they don’t care about our extremely unhealthy National debt. They cheer massive crony capitalism bailouts and are extremely financially irresponsible as democrats. Socialism in America is ultimately unaffordable without taxing the middle class and upper class into nothing. Socialism here would ultimately have to be funded on our imaginary unchecked National debt/credit. If all these RINOs would grow some balls and get back their roots they would crush the liberals pretty quickly. Also it’s time for conservatives and religious republicans to be ok with gay marriage and abortion to a degree. These would all fall under smaller federal government and individual liberties. That again mainstream republicans make an issue which makes the republican part lose at the voting booth.
What blows my mind is that in 1619, the colonies were under English rule! Why do they tend to forget to mention this? This is why Frederick does not get the love! He understood the documents, Constitution and DI, better than our current academic chattering class on tv!
Oh my goodness, you made an excellent point! Folks really do need to learn the TRUE part of that history! There's so many documentaries out there that really fill in the blanks of what we were taught in school and correct alot of the half truths we were taught! During the Covid-19 lock down, I've watched PBS (Love Professor Henry Louis Gates) , Netflix, History Channel, Samuel Jackson's "Enslaved", Prime Video & some others. Learned & filled in some gaps of information that made me say, ohhhh...that's why this system is set up this way or that's why the people over here feel this way or that's how the economic & educational system came to be! Now that we have all of this technology and information at out finger tips, there's really no excuse for more folks to be more informed and to have a better educated opinion of what's going on in the world and how we arrived at this point in time of our history! Hopefully have more compassion and be more humble? I'm just a part time brain surgeon so what do I know🤷🏾♂️
Nikole Hannah Jones literally defends the British in her 1619 project despite the British conquering half the world and bringing slavery to their colonies in 1619. The US declared independence from Britain in 1776, the constitution was ratified in 1788. The Northwest Ordinance was written in 1787 directly off the Declaration of Independence (WITHOUT slavery). Jefferson banned the slave trade in 1808. Our country has been far from perfect in the past, but a lot of our history is using founding ideals to live up to founding ideals and achieve equality. Nikole Hannah Jones chooses not to recognize this, but more Americans should.
@@dubszn-bz6dv man you people are killing me. You keep trying to find fault in her. The so called constitution wasn't written for black people. It's like you try to make slavery and what America did not such a big deal. But that's the way America is and always will be.
@@dubszn-bz6dv actually you are quit wrong in many of your assertions. Nichole Hannah Jones is not defending the british at all. At the point she starts it all British. What she argues is Virginia's & South Carolina to a lesser point and how their interest influenced law and policy. Also Jefferson did not ban thr slave trade in 1808. This was a negotiated date at the framing of the constitution and was put in so the southern states would accept the terms of the constitution. Also this date only banned the importation of slaves. It did not end slavery and the demand further influenced the domestic slave trade and slave breeding. The 1619 project is a very good work but definatly has points to be debated and this is healthy. But to discount it as propaganda or narritive is not fair. Research, debate is what these things should be about.
Frederick Douglas looks like a badass in all these pictures.
Because he is. He is an amazing American hero that needs to be praised more. Unlike this journalist lady
What is this love for acting as if slavery is something that now needs to be admonished? Its like getting a whipping as a kid and then you are told how bad you were that day for the rest of your life.
Slavery was just a fact of life in the 1600s, in fact, it was a fact of life long before then as people worldwide practiced it and it wasn't just based on color. European shores were raided and people taken slaves.
This country literally fought a war over this issue and slavery ended. Did racism? Nope. Will racism ever end? Nope. But that to is the human condition as no mater what groups you make up there is tribalism. Look at the politics of the partys today. Is that hate any different than racism? Nope, in fact people will lie to get folks fired or not let them get a job, witness Kavanaugh for example.
And that hate isn't bothered by hating on black folks if they are not of the correct party and mindset.
So these folks that want to rewrite the history of this country because they still feel oppressed after thousands of white men died ending slavery get no sympathy from me when those same people will call a person like Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell racial names, in fact they disgust me as the same as any pro slavery person back then would because they demand a slavery of the mind and soul, not just the body, and thats beyond disgust
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Slavery never died. You can argue the new slavery is built in Capatialism.
@@monsterhunter445 Slavery is completely counter to Capitalism. Capitalism is, and always will be, about free and honest trade between workers, businesses, and consumers so all sides prosper. Slavery and Capitalism is completely incompatible. You may be thinking of Corporatism or Consumerism. Both of those makes "slaves" of the less well off parties. I suggest reading The Wealth of Nations written by Adam Smith, one of the leading writers on the theories of Capitalism.
America acts like it's the only country that has ever dealt with slavery.
We're the only country that fought a civil war over it.
How? How does America act like that?
Ireland acts like it's the only country that has ever dealt with leprechauns. Making things up is fun.
@@acetate909 lol
@@Stevarooni and yet the 1619 project claims our civil war wasn't over slavery.
Like ALL modern leftist ideology it is contradicting, emotionally based and pushed by anti American Marxists.
@@acetate909 so you've never listened to the rhetoric that comes out from the marxist groups like BLM, I wish I could say the same.
Good on you reasontv for contributing to a fairly nuanced dialogue.
Some people just can't leave the past in the past.
Especially if it is imaginary.
But surely the counter argument to that is that institutions today are still racist, e.g. police more likely to shoot unarmed black person than unarmed white person.
@@conorlooney3295 The Washington Post has a data base for police shootings by year, race, whether the person was armed or not, and a bunch of other stuff. The difference in the number of black and white people that were shot isn't big. In one year there were more unarmed whites shot.
You're right. The Confederate flag should come down, and stay down. Great minds think alike 😉.
Funny because racist don't leave the past in the past as they still spew their hate and their desire to revert back to slavery.
If I hear that the U.S. is a democracy one more time, I'm gonna lose it!
The US is a democracy
If you really want to get that pedantic, the United States is a Republic, which is a representative democracy.
@@treyhall9138
Yeah, we know. But most people don't take it personally the way the OP does.
@@treyhall9138 I think I heard we are complicated called federal constitutional republic with a democratic representative republic
I thought it was a democracy until the most recent election.
For starters, Democracy is not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution, nor the Declaration Of Independence. In Federalist papers 9 and 10, we learn the difference between a Republic and a Democracy, and which it is that our country was founded to be.
I think many people- both young and old- have the mentality the US is a Democracy, unfortunately.
Sad part is we still argue over slavery 100+ years since it ended in America yet no focus is given to ongoing slavery in other nations/countries.
Haha when you tell a libtard that there is still slavery in Asia and Africa, plus the human trafficking in Eastern Europe, you will hear crickets.
There is still human trafficking in the USA
@@Didleeios88 exactly, right here in montana. Natives and others go missing every year with out ever being found. My state has a huge child human trafficking problem.
@@Lisa-hj8fh dirty secret: the cartels are major traffickers of women who are sold into sexual slavery. Democrats open border policies are making business boom for them.
Frederick Douglass is an American Hero. A legend. A warrior for freedom and justice for all people, regardless of race, sex, or political beliefs. A staunch defender of the one document that has guided us to where we are today enabling all peoples the right to vote, to be free, and to be left to their own path of choosing, the US Constitution. We should all be more like Frederick Douglass.
Here's a bigger issue: Progressives tend to view transatlantic slavery as being unique to the US. Transatlantic slavery was mostly concentrated in the Caribbean Islands and Brazil. And yet these places are lagging behind.
0:24 a republic was founded. Not a democracy. A republic.
My favorite F Douglass quote which I remember when someone tries to paint a cause I believe in with a bad brush because some unsavory person also might want it: "I would unite with anyone to do right, and with nobody to do wrong."
Frederick Douglass was a giant of a man. 200 years ahead of his time
Just for reference. One half to two thirds of colonists arriving at that time were indentured servants.
They worked most of their adult lives to pay for passage. Their offspring would be free.
Context people, Almost everyone arriving was a servant not just those with darker skin ...
Fredrick Douglass thought the U.S.Constituion was a racist creed, then he READ it and was astonished to find the perfect document and defended it for the rest of his life. But Douglass was a SUPERIOR american, this contemporary bunch are childish fools by comparison.
He was a regular American, with a functioning brain.
I prayed for my freedom for twenty years
Then I prayed with my feet
Frederick Douglass
It's amazing to me that so many experts on this book have clearly never read it. One of the primary threads in the text is that the African Americans, who have lived in the United States much longer than most of their European counterparts, embraced and held dear the promises of the words penned by men like Thomas Jefferson. Even though, men like Jefferson, struggled to embrace them. It is a great book. And Frederick Douglass is certainly a major hero in the book. Don't be swayed by shallow analyses from fools on youtube. Read the book.
Reminds me of the Ministry of Truth from the book Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Another critique I have is that it completely negates Native American slavery and debtors slavery, which existed long before 1619.
We were never founded as a Democracy. Believing this is the problem.
A republic, if you can keep it.
Nowhere does it mention Democracy.
Unfortunately people young and old think America is a Democracy.
Thomas Jefferson: "democratical, but representative."
Asking people to live up to the principles they value is much more potent than telling them to tear down the system they benefit from.
And in her first quote every American every was slurred as a slaver. That’s good racism there.
I have loved Frederick Douglas since the first report I did on him in the fourth grade.
And shame on Nikole Hannah-Jones for all of her active efforts to destroy this country.
I propose the 1000 project based on the fact when Leif Erickson and the Vikings landed in North America. And we all know what Vikings are known for.... plunder, raping, enslaving, and pillaging.
P.S. Has anyone seen the movie Pathfinder and saw what they did to the Native Americans?
Our Constitution is the literal embodiment of “Great Premise, Terrible Execution.”
Let's remember 1) the 1619 project is purportedly history *but* Hannah-Jones is a journactivist not a historian.
2) an actual historian advising Hannah-Jones highlighted glaring flaws or outright falsehoods in the 1619 project's narrative to Hannah-Jones, but H-J wasn't going to let facts interfere with the propaganda she wanted to push.
If Ms. Jones is so concerned with slavery, why not tackle these issues first:
"As of 2018, the countries with the most slaves were: India (8 million), China (3.86 million), Pakistan (3.19 million), North Korea (2.64 million), Nigeria (1.39 million), Iran (1.29 million), Indonesia (1.22 million), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 million), Russia (794,000) and the Philippines (784,000)."
Oh, right! It doesn't benefit her directly. Now I understand.
To be fair, you're making a bit of a nonsensical argument against her. Obviously her focus is on African slavery in the US and its relation to US history. This has nothing to do with worldwide slavery, especially as it is currently.
We saw what happened when women got the right to vote.
When all individuals experience liberty, all groups will experience liberty. The reverse is not true.
It would be necessary to dissolve the nation itself in order for all 'individuals' to experience liberty. As long as there are 'Americans' there will always be groups and no universal individual liberty.
You've said too much or too little. Feel free to educate me.
@@joericher10 I cannot simplify further
Big thumbs up. Rights for one, rights for all.
"“The Accumulation of Wealth,” Frederick Douglass’s Paper, November 28, 1856
The Spartan lawgiver who discouraged the accumulation of wealth, because of its tendency to impair the liberties of his country, was fully justified in the extreme measures he adopted, by the universal experience of nations, and the fate of his own country; the fall of Spartan liberties dating from the introduction of wealth and consequent luxury of her citizens.
His aim to exterminate wealth and refinement entirely, was, perhaps, not wise; it is not wealth of itself that produces the dreaded effects, but its accumulation in the hands of a few - creating an aristocracy of wealth, ready to be the tool of an aggressive tyranny, or to become aggressive upon its own account. With an increase of wealth comes an increase of selfishness, devotion to private affairs, and a contempt of public - unless politics can be made to minister to the all absorbing selfishness of the individual.
The advocates of unbridled accumulation claim for their system, that it is founded on nature, that the faculty of acquisition is found existing in man everywhere and in all stages of development; that the world owes much to the enterprise developed by its influence; and that it would be shallow statesmanship to interfere with its action.
We are ready to grant that the condition of man, cast as he is into the world naked, and surrounded by elements unfriendly to his continued existence, renders a degree of acquisitiveness necessary for the security of life; but is it just to plead this moderate degree of accumulation, indicated by nature, in justification of the unlimited hoarding of wealth, and monopolies of land, which has converted the entire civilized world into an abode of millionaires and beggars; which renders the enslavement of the peoples of the world possible, and shrouds the future of liberty with gloom?
To look at the treasures of Paris, or London, or New York, and other centres of wealth, one might at first feel disposed to agree in the assertion that man is acquisitive creature, even in the extreme case claimed by the defenders of the present system, by which wealth is accumulated by the few, instead of being distributed, as it should be, among the mass, rendering none rich, allowing none to remain poor.
A wider range of observation, however, including man everywhere, will show that with the vast majority of mankind, a satisfaction of the wants of nature is all that is sought; and even in those centres of selfishness spoken of, there are vast multitudes who would be thus satisfied, but that the rush and crash of the mighty machine of society compels them, in self-defence, to join in the rush for wealth.
‘Tis the old question, “whether ‘tis better to be a victim or a victimizer,” and they decide against being victims.
Wealth has ever been the tool of the tyrant, the readiest means by which liberty is overthrown. A nation starting with free institutions and customs, begins to increase in wealth, and that wealth to accumulate in the hands of a few, and here is the lever by which, eventually and certainly, the liberties gained in a simpler age will be overthrown."
Please thank whoever made this video happen, for me.
Very good
Frederick Douglass is so fucking based.
The Constitution does not redeem America's past with slavery or colonialism. Indeed, slavery was allowed to thrive under the Constitution and it took a war to end it. Colonialism continued even after the Civil War. Fortunately the Constitution can be changed. The great thing about America is that we can make it better, and we have made it better.
You failed to explain the 1619 project clearly enough.
Frederick Douglas was my favorite person in history! He held America feet to the fire on there documents!
That is the most badass thumbnail I've ever seen!!! Thumbs up 👍
"But, such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine." ...
"My subject, then fellow-citizens, is American slavery. I shall see, this day, and its popular characteristics, from the slave’s point of view. Standing, there, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery-the great sin and shame of America! "
- Frederick Douglass, or perhaps Colin Kaepernick
Wow awesome info!!
He said he was a Republican and a advisor to Lincoln.
"Power concedes nothing without a demand"---Frederick Douglass
Douglass is a true american
Any attempt to encourage a wider view of the world should be encouraged. Learning more instead of stagnating with less is to be lauded. Please read both Frederick Douglas and the 1619 project, which, directly alongside Mr. Douglas' point of view, sees the constitution as a document that must be made to be true, for it wasn't when it was written.
This video was poorly sourced to pit these two sources as even remotely opposed
Word.
The constitution isn’t necessarily the problem. It’s what plagues the republican and democrat party today.......
The love affair between big business and our elected officials. Big business before/over we the people is why so many where enslaved. If liberals or progressives truly want equality they would support ideologies that reduce the love affair between big business and the federal government. You would look to reduce the size and scope of the federal government. These are all extremely necessary to have a truly equal society.
If they truly wanted equality.
@@bobg.3206 correction Bob....but it’s BOTH admitting is the first step in recovery
Frederick Douglass believed in individual liberty. Something that collectivists do not. This is why the Left hate this courageous and glorious American. Frederick Douglass was indeed a giant. A true American patriot.
Thank you.
Well technically we aren't a democracy, intentionally so as others in the comments have mentioned. We are a representative republic instead. There are similarities but also differences to try and avoid tyranny of the majority.
We're a democratic republic. Our representatives are elected democratically instead of being appointed by some sort of oligarchy (in theory) or being drawn by lottery or something.
Damn! Did this video just debunk CRT?😂😂😉Respect😎
Thank goodness reason has a vid on this. all the other think tanks etc that have vids on youtube criticizing 1619 Project are all cranks or worse. Heritage being the best among them, showing how bad the list is. Reason won't disappoint this moderate!
Is this the shortened version of a longer video yet to be released?
REPUBLIC, not a democracy
Name any place where there's a lot of slavery and it makes them wealthy?
In today's world it might be officiant since the cost of living is SO SO much cheaper. But a hundred years ago most people worked full time just to put food on the table. Slave or not. All your energy went to surviving another day.
America ...
So if 1619 is the date when the US was founded because slaves were sold... do we then begin the history of Africa during the year when the first tribes captured and enslaved their rivals and sold them to the Dutch? Or are we teaching now the Dutch as the first cowboys who just wrangled peaceful tribes on horseback? Slavery is terrible but let's not pretend Africa was clean by any means in the trade.
Wow, when did ronald mcdonald change his name ?? Nice hair, lady !!!😄😄😄
When he transitioned to an angry black woman.
Good news: The person who brought this into to high schools has just been named sec of education.
Oh wow, how EXACTLY was the U.S. meant to be a democracy when neither the U.S. Constitution nor the Declaration of Independence mentions absolutely nothing at any level, and not even implied throughout ANY of the legal texts making up either of the documents.
1619 seems like a rather odd number.
I need to buy this book, and make sure my homeschooled kids read it... so that if and when they go to college, they can fight this leftist historical revisionism nonsense better and maybe save some of their fellow students.
A messianic jewish brother had some concerns for some homeschooling curriculum from some very far right sources. I think he was thinking antisemitism and revisionism history with a white supremacist tenor. Now I dont know what material you used for your kids
@@ka9fon I'm not quite sure what you're saying/asking here. As it is, I'm referring to future events... my oldest kid is only 11, and barely ready to start learning history with the level of detail this book entails.
Can we as libertarians retake the word Liberal and return democrats to their former and still accurate descriptor Pro-slavery.
I wish slavery never happened
Agreed
The problem is voting as a right vs a privilege. If you give the vote to people who have no stake in consequences they will always vote selfishly at the expense of others. They are also the easily manipulated into believing they are the victim.
Two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner is a democracy. Giving the sheep a gun is a republic.
We were founded, and are, a REPUBLIC.
I guess I don’t see this piece as explaining very well what the conflict is. Is it just about the date? Are you tossing out the entire book and the historical narrative ideas over this one disagreement?
Should post on Rumble
The Constitution established America as a Republic, rather than a Democracy. So in that sense, the Constitution is an undemocratic document. However, it is still glorious non-the-less.
That's the same argument the 1619 project makes! Go figure?
I'm missing how F.D. is connected to the 1619 Project though. 1619 Project wants to rewrite history to say America was founded then, I get that much. But how is Douglas relevant to the discussion of rewriting history of a nation's founding date?
"Let's found a country on 3/5 of a human." -No 0ne
I am. Frederick Douglas, too.
You’ve very much only stated a portion of Douglas’ statement about the glorious document and misrepresented his meaning. The glorious freed document is how it “ought” to be interpreted. Why don’t you use this, even better part of his speech? -> “Now, take the constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.”
I KNOW why you don’t reference the end of THE SAME SPEECH. ->
“Fellow-citizens! I will not enlarge further on your national inconsistencies. The existence of slavery in this country brands your republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretence, and your christianity as a lie. It destroys your moral power abroad it corrupts your politicians at home. It saps the foundation of religion; it makes your name a hissing, and a bye-word to a mocking earth. It is the antagonistic force in your government, the only thing that seriously disturbs and endangers your Union. It fetters your progress; it is the enemy of improvement, the deadly foe of education; it fosters pride; it breeds insolence; it promotes vice; it shelters crime; it is a curse to the earth that supports it; and yet, you cling to it, as if it were the sheet anchor of all your hopes. Oh! be warned! be warned! a horrible reptile is coiled up in your nation’s bosom; the venomous creature is nursing at the tender breast of your youthful republic; for the love of God, tear away, and fling from you the hideous monster, and let the weight of twenty millions, crush and destroy it forever!”
What about the 1787 project?
I’m not even sure the “1619” thing is technical true, since legal status of those first Angolans brought to Virginia was ambiguous. They were probably treated there as indentured servants, not slaves. They didn’t have much say in the matter, but many indentured servants didn’t. And I’d guess that 7 years indenture beats a lifetime of chattel.
If I remember correctly, even the “indentured servants for 99 years” gimmick ( used by some English masters to get around the fact that there was little to no legal framework for slavery in English law) didn’t start being used for a decade or so in the Caribbean. Could be wrong about that, though.
I can't wait to see this as a IGTV video on the @reasonmagazine Instagram page.
"A worship that can be conducted by persons who refuse to give shelter to the houseless, to give bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, and who enjoin obedience to a law forbidding these acts of mercy, is a curse, not a blessing to mankind. The Bible addresses all such persons as “scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, who pay tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy and faith.” But the church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of die slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors. It has made itself the bulwark of American slavery, and the shield of American slave-hunters. Many of its most eloquent Divines. who stand as the very lights of the church, have shamelessly given the sanction of religion and the Bible to the whole slave system. They have taught that man may, properly, be a slave; that the relation of master and slave is ordained of God; that to send back an escaped bondman to his master is clearly the duty of all the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ; and this horrible blasphemy is palmed off upon the world for Christianity." - Frederick Douglass
Douglas did not see eye to eye with his black Contemporary Booker T Washington, who would more likely agree with the 1916 project.
Well, the US constitution is anti modern democracy. US constitution is based on classical liberalism and that is incompatible with MODERN democracy, since classical liberalism promotes limited goverment, induvidual rights and laissez faire capitalism. Ask yourself the following:
Is slavery compatible with modern democracy or classical liberalism.
Is segregation compatible with modern democracy or classical liberalism.
Is the war on drugs compatible with modern democracy or classical liberalism.
The list is long, but the short answer is modern democracy. The reason why is simple: in a modern democracy anything can be law either through represenetives or a majority popular vote. Democracy under classical liberalism means that the people decides laws either through represenetives or popular vote in order to protect life, property and liberty and nothing else!
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I never hear Frederick Douglas' name from leftists not even from the civil rights movement. Why is that?
Because the left doesn't celebrate black achievement anymore. They celebrate victimhood and elevate the most oppressed to heroes.