Frederick Douglass tweets from the hereafter

[Scooter]

Frederick Douglass Opens Twitter Account from Beyond the Grave to Troll President Trump

Soooo, ummm . . . President Trump just described Frederick Douglass at a Black History Month Event as follows:

"Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice."

In response, the famed ex-slave-turned-abolitionist, suffragist, author, editor, and diplomat--who died in 1895--opened a Twitter account from the site of his interment at the Douglass family plot at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, NY.

The iconic historical figure seems to use the President's preferred medium and tone in an effort to troll him for his evident misapprehension that Mr. Douglass is currently doing "an amazing job" at anything or getting "recognized more and more," since he died 122 years ago.

@realFrederickDouglass: My autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, is #1 best-seller on Amazon. 4x better sales than Art of the Deal! P.S. I am dead!

@realFrederickDouglass: Hope you like everything I did for women's suffrage! Even the losers, haters, and flat-chested "fives." Enjoy!

@realFrederickDouglass: Appreciate @realDonaldTrump congrats on AMAZING job I did to secretly educate myself and other slaves while still living under slavery in Maryland. My work is finally being recognized!

@realFrederickDouglass: @realDonaldTrump, your FAKE NATIONAL SECURITY immigrant BAN goes against everything I stood for (when I was alive 122 yrs ago). A horrible mess!

@realFrederickDouglass: My abolitionist paper, The North Star, has much better coverage of me than the failing New York Times has of @realDonaldTrump!

@realFrederickDouglass: @realDonaldTrump pretended to know who I was when he obviously has no fucking idea. VERY DISHONEST!

@realFrederickDouglass: I will be asking for an investigation into the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD that led to black ppl and women not voting for entire first half of U.S. history!

@realFrederickDouglass: My keynote speech at Emancipation Memorial was highest rated speech with biggest crowd ever! DISHONEST CNN chose not to cover it. TERRIBLE!

@realFrederickDouglass: Only thing I have in common with @realDonaldTrump is that we both had a bankruptcy and failed business! (Freedman's Savings Bank and New Era newspaper). SAD!

@realFrederickDouglass: My name is in your mouth yet you got elected by KKK whose rise I actively fought in 1868. Excuse me while I roll over in my grave. DISASTER!

[BoSoxGal]

[Sue U]

OK, that's hilarious.

I saw that Donald Trump clip, and then Sean Spicer trying to spin it, and it was obvious that NEITHER of them had any clue who Frederick Douglass was or what he stood for, other than he was some black guy who was important for some reason. That Trump thinks Douglass "is getting recognized more and more, I notice" indicates just how ignorant he is concerning American (and specifically, African-American) history in general and the civil rights struggle in particular. Trump and his minions sound like fourth-graders trying to give a book report on a book they never read.

[Guinevere]

And in a stunning act of censorship @realFrederickDouglass has been deleted from Twitter.

So satire is no allowed, but racism and hate is alive and well. #WelcomeToTrump'sAmerica #NotMyCountry #FreeFrederickDouglass

[Joe Guy]

[Burning Petard]

For your further edification I give you an essay by Mark Twain, appropriate for both fake news and black history month.

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stori ... Wash.shtml


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[Bicycle Bill]

And in a stunning act of censorship @realFrederickDouglass has been deleted from Twitter.

So satire is no allowed, but racism and hate is alive and well. #WelcomeToTrump'sAmerica #NotMyCountry #FreeFrederickDouglass

In a way, Guin, I can understand the reason for doing that.  If they allowed someone to create @realFrederickDouglass, then what's to stop someone from creating @realAdolfHitler or @realJosefStalin and posting all sorts of fascist bullshit as if they were channeling these two tyrants, or even @realGuinevereK and start putting someone else's words into your mouth?

Not to mention that a lot of people these days don't get satire. That's why we're currently having this issue with fake news and 'alternative facts'.

[RayThom]

... Not to mention that a lot of people these days don't get satire. That's why we're currently having this issue with fake news and 'alternative facts'.

And don't forget sarcasm... many people lack the empathy that is crucial for detecting it.

Sad.

[wesw]

you don t have to tell bill, ray....., he knows everything.......

he s lousy with empathy......

(double entendre added for your reading pleasure..., consider yourself ribbed)