[Sam the Sham]

The NAACP has received a public relations boon from member Rosa's story, yet ironically had Booker T. Washington's vision of character and racial healing not been successfully attacked by DuBois, by Rosa's time there would have been likely no Jim Crow laws left to fight.

That is one imbecilic statement.

During the years 1890 to 1920 black communities and business districts were burned down by white mobs from Tulsa to Rosewood. All the hard work in the world is meaningless (as the Jew of Andalusia and Central Europe learned) if you do not have the most basic right of citizenship. The right to the physical protection of the law.

[abigail2]

I think you made the author's point...

[freedumb2003]

That is one imbecilic statement.

During the years 1890 to 1920 black communities and business districts were burned down by white mobs from Tulsa to Rosewood. All the hard work in the world is meaningless (as the Jew of Andalusia and Central Europe learned) if you do not have the most basic right of citizenship. The right to the physical protection of the law.

Although I applaud your zeal, your response is a non-sequiter. Rev. Peterson posits a scenario where blacks build their community up instead of tearing themselves down, and the result would have been a proud and equal black community instead of the race-baiting self-identified "victims."

Racial healing was and is possible. But not if it comes from a position of guilt-mongering.