I remember when my white college history prof bought this up in class and we got into a huge argument becuz why would you focus his legacy on 
  This is a classic example of how the contours of white supremacy and white superiority are so seductive that even when you are in the middle of it, it still looks like the best of all available options
   Frederick Douglass, a formerly enslaved man who was beaten, starved and tortured/who stole himself and then bought his freedom AND who in 1884, after his first wife died, married a white woman, the distant cousin of Presidents John and John Quincy Adams. He then said:  “My first wife was the color of my mother (who was a slave) and my second wife was the color of my father (who was his Master)”
   And later wrote: “What business has the world with the color of my wife?"

*🥷🏿 What business indeed?