He was both a freedom fighting abolitionist AND a best selling writer, speaker, and journalist. Three years ago when we decided to relaunch his newspaper, The North Star, with the blessing of his family, his great great great grandson @kbmorrisjr told me something that I’ve held with me. It’s painful. He told me that some of the most consistent and fierce opposition of Douglass didn’t come from evil white people, but of Black folk, who hated and opposed him and his work at damn near every step of his life. That stung. But it also helped me understand the patterns of history. Fighting oppression – I mean really fighting it – will always be complex – but at least we have models like Frederick Douglass to follow.