Frederick Douglass on Discrimination and Safety

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Frederick Douglass was an African-American reformer and statesman from the 19th century, and his point about poverty seems rather bound up with the violence, degradation and entrenchment of racism in the US.  What the privileged classes do, and have done, to the underprivileged classes is a blight on humanity.  I very much work to grasp how poverty came to be in our wide populace, what its purpose may be from a spiritual standpoint, and what we can and ought to do about it.