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In 2017, West Side youth began asking the city to rename their neighborhood park to honor abolitionist Frederick Douglass instead of slavery advocate Stephen Douglas. A park in a neighborhood that’s about 90 percent Black shouldn’t memorialize a white supremacist, they reasoned.
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This park’s name must by why there’s so many murders in Chicago
Frederick Douglass was a good guy.
So what’s gonna happen to that piece of land on the west side called Columbus Park? Ain’t dat racisss? CPS students answer the question about who Columbus was and they say he was the guy that built the golf course. I used to play there with a group of guys and fondly referred to it as the “Shine Nine”.
Yep. If it weren’t for that white Devil (notice that white is not capitalized) Douglas, John C. Breckinridge may very well have been the Democratic Party candidate in 1860. Without the split that Douglas caused, in all probability Breckinridge would have been the Democratic Party nominee that year and soundly beaten that other white Devil racist, Abraham Lincoln…
Conspicuously missing from the article is the fact that Stephen Douglas was a product of his time for a DEMOCRAT.