Instead of all of the accolades that are heaped towards Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, it should have gone to brilliant men, like Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, these men should be the standard bearers for blacks in this country.
It's funny you should mention Booker Taliaferro Washington. During that same conversation, the young man admitted that he hadn't read "Up From Slavery." I can't fathom how anyone could read Mr. Washington's inspiring story and not grasp the conservative message. I wonder what percentage of blacks in America have actually read Mr. Washington's autobiography, or for that matter, Frederick Douglas' "Narrative." Those two gentlemen would have nothing but contempt for the current crop of grievance-mongers.
Not even getting into his journey to receive an education, by my reckoning (I did the math, but others here may correct me), BTW started the Tuskegee Institute with virtually nothing (even less, when you consider the debt), and in a span of 20 years, had built a renowned center of learning worth $1 Billion in today's dollars. Not bad for a guy who started out lacking even a last name.
That's the kind of drive and sense of self-determination that's sadly lacking the black community, IMUO (in my unauthorized opinion). Of course, by DuBois' earlier standards (he somewhat relented, later on) and those of most of today's black "leadership," Booker was a sell-out to Whitey.