From: jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 12:03:20 AM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:   
   > From a blog:    
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   > Very glad to be associated with this project, if only as a man who somehow   
   looks like the “David W. Blightâ€� who appears in videos associated with the   
   project. (Perhaps not the only person ever associated with the pen name, that   
   happens sometimes.)    
   >    
   > Frederick Douglass is something like “the most interesting Republicanâ€�,   
   an American figure with enduring relevance for African-American rights and   
   much more besides. The country he needed? He made it him self, by fashioning a   
   social movement to    
   accompany and guide the Union effort to crush chattel slavery in the Southern   
   states that still maintained it.    
   >    
   > He was an American success by the standards of his era, which were exacting   
   and unforgiving. (The newer TV program devoted to him shows more of this.) He   
   was also a sharp political mind, perhaps the first to adumbrate a sensible   
   radical egalitarian    
   program cutting across racial divisions for a United States he somehow   
   belonged to, even if he belonged to no one else.    
   >    
   > And yet in talking about Frederick Douglass I somehow end up talking about   
   the “Q-Tip tautologyâ€�, i.e. Q-Tip’s words in De La Soul’s “Me,   
   Myself, and Iâ€�: “black is blackâ€�, something Douglass was and which I am   
   not. It — is — really â   
   €” best — not — to — be — the — expert — on — others.    
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   > Jeffrey Rubard   
      
   Pretty sure the cover image was chosen intentionally along the lines suggested   
   by the post title. "Hey Ya!" indeed kind of stuff.   
      
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