Frederick Douglass: Do Nothing With Us!

In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us.  What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.  The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us…. I have had but one answer from the beginning.  Do nothing with us!  Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.  Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are worm-eaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! … And if the negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also.  All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! …  Your interference is doing him positive injury.

via Frederick Douglass – African American Quotes.

Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.

Simply amazing.  When will the modern left learn their lesson?