Please correct me if I am wrong, but was it Booker T. Washingon in the 1800’s who warned of a group of freed slaves who would try to profit off their misery because they could not qualify for jobs or admission to college?
"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."