I repeat, and my contention is that this Negro problem formula lays the fault at the door of the Negro and removes it from the door of the white man, shields the guilty and blames the innocent, makes the Negro responsible, when it should so make the nation.
Douglass emphasizes that the blame for societal issues should not fall on the oppressed but on the oppressors.
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