In most public schools, both predominantly white and predominantly black, you only learn about these people during Black History Month. IF the school recognizes Black History Month. Black historical figures are not prominently featured in “standard” US History classes - so many people don’t ever learn about them.…

This needs to be addressed in greater detail. He does not read. That is obvious. Can he read? He also has no attention span, cannot string two coherent sentences together (ok - even one is a great challenge), creates stories that I think he believes from bits and pieces that are told him. He is, in short, a typical…

And GW Carver. We learn about MLK and Carver probably the earliest; it’s easy to get kids to understand a guy did a bunch of stuff with peanuts, and MLK is the easiest introduction to the concept of the Civil Rights movement.

Not American (and for JennySays... I promise we’re not all ignorant) and I’m white. Douglass also supported women’s right to vote. He’s damn important and every single fucking person involved with Trump speaking today should be forced to read a book that isn’t about Trump.

Holding up his signed executive orders to the cameras like a little kid holding up his finger painting.

“Crispus Attucks died before the Revolutionary War even started. I prefer people that survived, ok?”

I shudder to think what the reaction would have been if he had substituted Emmitt Till for Fredrick Douglass.

They didn’t learn during Black History Month because they were too busy wondering why there’s no White History Month.

His TV ratings were just non-existent. Terrible. The worst at TV.

Newsflash: There are a ton of non-American people who know who Frederick Douglass is. Bounus points: They’re white:

“Frederick Douglass, tremendous, really great, great actor. Deserved the Oscar for his performance in Wall Street. You know, a couple of years ago, Demi Moore came to me, she was really beautiful, very gorgeous, now she’s gotten older, but back in the day she had just gotten her breasts made, beautiful breasts, not as…

For those who don’t know about Crispus and his role in the Boston Massacre

For as long as I live I will never forget the fact that Orange Hitler and his minion Sean Spicer think Frederick Douglass is still alive.

He was an amazing writer and man of great intelligence and also a runaway slave. Literally a one of a kind great American. So I guess it’s not surprising our President, who has the vocabulary of a 4th grader, wouldn’t have heard of him.

Yeah what’s that saying about every time a headline is a question, the answer is “No”? “Can your goldfish bowl kill you in your sleep?” No. “Are kids getting high off expired cans of soup?” No. “Does Trump know ... literally anything?” NO.

He literally cannot make a speech about anything without it being about his “achievements” and how the “fake news” is out to get him. Trump could sing “Happy Birthday” at Barron’s birthday party and still put in something about the number of people that attended his inauguration. It must be absolutely exhausting…

I just read the transcript, and even by Trumpian standards, that was.....pretty goddamn terrible. I can only imagine how much worse it was live. Seriously, can someone, anyone, not get this man a fucking speechwriter?

I watched it live and the whole thing was truly bizarre.

Short answer: No.

No.