From: jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 8:26:01 AM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:   
   > 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. Blight” 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   
   Republican”, 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 tautology”, i.e. Q-Tip’s words in De La Soul’s “Me,   
   Myself, and I”: “black is black”, something Douglass was and which I am   
   not. It — is —    
   really — best — not — to — be — the — expert — on — others.    
   > >    
   > > Jeffrey Rubard   
   > Pretty sure the cover image was chosen intentionally along the lines   
   suggested by the post title. "Hey Ya!" indeed kind of stuff.   
      
   (The subtitle is obviously a joke, too. "Liberated from the bonds of earthly   
   servitude...")   
      
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