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Possibly the most embarrassingly air-headed WaPo headline ever. Maybe we should just look away...

September 20, 2019

But here it is: "Frederick Douglass photos smashed stereotypes. Could Elizabeth Warren selfies do the same?" Smashed stereotypes ... God help us. This is an idea for a column that should have been considered for 5 to 10 seconds and laid to rest. Some text, to give you the idea: The two are separated by race, gender and more than 100 years of history that forged an America that would probably be unrecognizable to Douglass. Still, experts say, their use of photography collapses the distance: Douglass sat for scores of pictures to normalize the idea of black excellence and equality, and Warren’s thousands of selfies with supporters could do the same for a female president. This is like some nitwit celeb saying that Hollywood is reminiscent of a slave plantation. As Yale professor David Blight writes in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” Douglass used the photos — in which he appeared elegantly dressed, his hair perfectly arranged — as “a

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