(1) What Frederick Douglass said was what many abolititionists said, and it was what many Americans thought, since the Civil War was fought to abolish slavery, which it did. Note that the Republican Party was founded as the anti-slavery party. Douglass did not denounce any race, but the institution of slavery. (He was right in saying that the United States was hypocritical to celebrate liberty and also allow slavery (in certain states); of course, there was slavery – and still is – in other parts of the world.)
Note that Wright, Meeks, and Obama are out-of-date. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, and slavery itself abolished with the amendments to the Constitution in 1865.
But what does what Douglass said have to do with Obama’s allegiance to anti-American racists? Obama has probably not read Douglass or Booker T. Washington, and he does not know the Gettysburg Address.
(2) The definition of “colored” varied from state to state, in those states which had laws for racial discrimination. Thomas Jefferson was not the father of any of Sally Hemings’ children. The Jefferson DNA found in some of her male descendants could have come from any male Jefferson, his nephews or his brother. A study of this was made by historians who concluded that the father of the Jefferson sons by Sally Hemings was probably Thomas Jefferson’s father.
