Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger."
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I have seen Edward Snowden compared to Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and now Harriet Tubman. We could deal with this overreaching by laughing our asses off, as the claim is just ridiculous on its face, and one needs a sense of humor, right? I could not find one thing funny about that statement this evening. I found it infuriating and insulting to see black icons who were prepared to sacrifice limb, family, and life being dragged down to the level of a guy who now resides in comfort in that bastion of freedom and liberty, Russia, under the non-tyrant, Putin.
Have you any idea who Harriet Tubman was? Have you any idea what dangers she faced? The sacrifices she made? The "Woman called Moses" was the Edward Snowden of her time? Really?
Below you will find a letter written to this fearless warrior queen from Frederick Douglas. I want you to read it, and after doing so I want you tell me again just how Edward Snowden compares to Harriet Tubman.
August 29, 1868 - "Dear Harriet: I am glad to know that the story of your eventful life has been written by a kind lady, and that the same is soon to be published. You ask for what you do not need when you call upon me for a word of commendation. I need such words from you far more than you can need them from me, especially where your superior labors and devotion to the cause of the lately enslaved of our land are known as I know them. The difference between us is very marked. Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public, and I have received much encouragement at every step of the way. You, on the other hand, have labored in a private way. I have wrought in the day - you in the night. I have had the applause of the crowd and the satisfaction that comes of being approved by the multitude, while the most that you have done has been witnessed by a few trembling, scarred, and foot-sore bondmen and women, whom you have led out of the house of bondage, and whose heartfelt, "God bless you," has been your only reward. The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism. Excepting John Brown - of sacred memory - I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have. Much that you have done would seem improbable to those who do not know you as I know you. It is to me a great pleasure and a great privilege to bear testimony for your character and your works, and to say to those to whom you may come, that I regard you in every way truthful and trustworthy. Your friend, Frederick Douglass."
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I am repeating these questions that I asked once before: Do you think so much of Edward Snowden? Or is it that you think so little of our heroes?