“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well.” - Booker T. Washington 1911
Thanks for that, Tigers Eye.
Mr. Washington was quite a man.
He nailed it 102 years ago. Apparently it was already a shopworn gig then.