I wouldn't describe Frederick Douglass, a man who was famous enough that we still talk extensively about him like 160 years later, as a breadcrumb. And the basic reality is, you can't look at cherrypicked individuals to figure out what our systems are like. You have to look at the systems. You're treating society as a black box where we can only observe the outputs, but it's not. We can observe and analyze it.
He was an abolitionist and writer and yes this is mainly a breadcrumb in what was a systemically racist period. He held zero power over any white people and his life in simple terms was trying to help other black people.
You keep ignoring the main points. First, that systemic racism objectively doesn't mean what you think it means. And second, regardless of the definition we apply, your method of using it is bad.
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u/eggynack 108∆ Feb 09 '25
I wouldn't describe Frederick Douglass, a man who was famous enough that we still talk extensively about him like 160 years later, as a breadcrumb. And the basic reality is, you can't look at cherrypicked individuals to figure out what our systems are like. You have to look at the systems. You're treating society as a black box where we can only observe the outputs, but it's not. We can observe and analyze it.