What to The Party is Herschel Walker?

Although scribed and spoken nearly 140 years ago, the words below of the late and great Frederick Douglass seem so appropriate as we consider the reported closeness of the Senate race in Georgia between two Black men, an admittedly inexperienced former football player, Herschel Walker and incumbent Senator, Raphael Warnock.

Read the excerpt below and consider what is happening in Georgia and ask yourself why, how is it, that still, it is applicable today. Was Frederick Douglass psychic or have hearts and minds remained unchanged? Hmmm...

Pass it on, especially to your friends in Georgia.

Though the colored man is no longer subject to barter and sale, he is surrounded by an adverse settlement which fetters all his movements.

In his downward course he meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress.

If he comes in ignorance, rags and wretchedness he conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome; but if he shall come as a gentleman, a scholar and a statesman, he is hailed as a contradiction to the national faith concerning his race, and his coming is resented as impudence.

In one case he may provoke contempt and derision, but in the other he is an affront to pride and provokes malice.”



Frederick Douglass

Negro Men Convention

Louisville, KY

September 24, 1883

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