Mr. Douglass Is in the Room

“This week, Steve Schmidt told the story that Bishop William Barber told him about the conversation between Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman. We will all have moments of doubt in dark times.

When we look at our current situation, we need to remember that it will never be as miserable as for them. And they have a lot to say to us.

This is from Schmidt’s subsack, which I highly recommend.

“Bisk Barber said afterwards Dreadscott Supreme Court decision In 1857, 39-year-old Frederick Douglas fell into depression. He noticed that Harriet Tubman approached him and asked the American giant a simple question of three words.

Tubman asked:

Is God dead?

Bishop Barber explained that this question had shaken Douglas and shamed him for instantly realising that he had committed a kind of idolatry sin.

He realized that he placed faith in men and institutions rather than higher powers of destiny. Douglas, a devout man, believed to be the hand of God.

He was a genius and moral giant in a low moment in 1857, and he did not break.

Douglas knew he had to face this suspicion crisis directly, so he did.

He prepared speechand during the first half he condemned the evil of Scott’s decision being drowned.

He lamented the horrific hypocrisy and delusions of the country that celebrated freedom, enslaving more than three million people.

He then went to the heart of the matter.

Bishop Barber explained with his confused baritone what happened next.

When he did, I felt deep, gentle ascent and certainty for me about what will happen next.

I know how our current predicament will end.

Frederick Douglas wondered whether the decision would have set up a chain of events that would link to it when it would lead to the downfall of the entire evil institution of slavery.

At this point, that seemed impossible, but from the moment the set was over, the end had begun.

Slavery ended when it seemed to endure and expand.

Let’s make this again.

Frederick Douglass cannot be erased.

His words and moral heat are our inheritance.

Share them. They must face this insanity, despair, cruelty, whimsical indifference, free people who do not tolerate the light empt of human dignity, and increase their confidence in the threat of crushing.

no.

It’s a better day from now on.

We do that, but it’s not without costs and struggle.

It’s too late to avoid it now.

stand up.

Respond. ”