Closer probably to 750,000 but otherwise correct.
What shall be done with the Negro if emancipated? Deal justly with him. He is a human being, capable of judging between good and evil, right and wrong, liberty and slavery, and is as much a subject of law as any other man; therefore, deal justly with him. He is, like other men, sensible of the motives of reward and punishment. Give him wages for his work, and let hunger pinch him if he don’t work. He knows the difference between fullness and famine, plenty and scarcity. “But will he work?” Why should he not? He is used to it. His hands are already hardened by toil, and he has no dreams of ever getting a living by any other means than by hard work. But would you turn them all loose? Certainly! We are no better than our Creator. He has turned them loose, and why should not we?
Frederick Douglass, January 1862
Douglass is 100% correct. But Democrats don’t believe Douglass. They treat Blacks as second class citizen condemning them to welfare slavery and dependent on the Democrat Party to tell them what’s good for them. LBJ said so himself. Hope enough wake up to help Trump.
Using the correct estimate of 750,000 deaths during the War, that breaks down to 432,000 Union deaths. Of whom, 30,000 were black troops.
But according to the Second Worst Pulitzer Prize winner, mentioning the hundreds of thousands of whites who killed slavery at the cost of their own lives is a racist denial of the agency of people of color.
By the way, she still hasn’t accounted for her hateful–and often literally fantastic–nastygram to Notre Dame’s student paper in 1995.
Apparently, agency for her includes never having to account for anything she writes or says.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/25/in-racist-screed-nyts-1619-project-founder-calls-white-race-barbaric-devils-bloodsuckers-no-different-than-hitler/#.XvUK3sGejUQ.twitter
By the way, she still hasn’t accounted for her hateful–and often literally fantastic–nastygram to Notre Dame’s student paper in 1995.
https://www.thegazette.com/article/20130402/Obituaries/304029939
https://www.papich-kubafs.com/obituary/2100862?fh_id=13958
These are the obituaries of her maternal-side grandparents. Ms. Hannah-Jones is a piece of work.
Nikole must have been radicalized at ND. Her husband, Farajai Hanah Jones, seems like a reasonable guy; he comes from several generations of military vets and Tuskegee grads. He spent kindergarten – HS in Europe in DoDs with other military dependents of all backgrounds. Never went to a segragated school. He’s a big advocate for parents being involved in their children’s schools.
Nikole must have been radicalized at ND.
Holy Cross Fathers, heckuva job.
“These are the obituaries of her maternal-side grandparents. Ms. Hannah-Jones is a piece of work.”
The dismissive “Typical white person” from similar trailblazer leaps to mind. Hopefully they never got word of their granddaughter’s snarling contempt for their lack of melanin.