Brutality where individuals lost their lives and what we have the tendency to do is group everything together as the same and what america felts is its rugged individualism. What die mean . Its very difficult for us to look at the case that, lets just say in minneapolis, of where george floyd e george floyd died and the Law Enforcement we think about he was a black guy. Oh, it was white Law Enforcement officer. That tells me everything i need to know about why this to an took place. When you try to make an vanderbilt that the individual who died was black and the person who is responsible was white, you sort of eliminate other human beings who should also he the same moral outrage, too much time is spenting on this herd mentality. Everybody is an individual first and that individual is solely responsible for that action. We should not be outraged because the race of the person. Its the fact this individual died in a very gruesome and brutal way for no reason at all because what happens
The book read update there are two i want to start with. One is the monumental biography by david blight. Its fine probably the definitive biography on a special with what is going on in the United States in terms of fight for Racial Justice. Nobody was more consequential and has been more consequential on the question of race in america in terms of douglas. Way ahead of his time. He was not only an abolitionist, and a passionate abolitionist as a former slave , but he insisted from the earliest time in the 1840s, right through his death almost was the end of the 19th century that equality was the goal. And he would book no deviation from that. So many of his words ring true today. And i really recommend the biography for everybody. It is a long read but it is really powerful. Host one of the things i learned about Frederick Douglass this year was that he was also very active suffragist. Has a distinguished career. Was able to talk to a mixed race audience willing to take on the powerf