 Hi, this is Arnie Arneson, and this is a special edition of The Attitude. On this highly charged 4th of July, it feels appropriate to speak about America's potential and our promise, and the ongoing struggle we face to achieve the promises that were made in our founding documents. No one captures that struggle better than Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was born on a Maryland plantation as a slave. For a long time, he thought he was born in 1817.