Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger."http://www.pbs.org/...
I have seen Edward Snowden compared to Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and now Harriet Tubman. We could deal with this overreaching by laughing our asses off, as the claim is just ridiculous on its face, and one needs a sense of humor, right? I could not find one thing funny about that statement this evening. I found it infuriating and insulting to see black icons who were prepared to sacrifice limb, family, and life being dragged down to the level of a guy who now resides in comfort in that bastion of freedom and liberty, Russia, under the non-tyrant, Putin.
Have you any idea who Harriet Tubman was? Have you any idea what dangers she faced? The sacrifices she made? The "Woman called Moses" was the Edward Snowden of her time? Really?
Below you will find a letter written to this fearless warrior queen from Frederick Douglas. I want you to read it, and after doing so I want you tell me again just how Edward Snowden compares to Harriet Tubman.