[dfwgator]

A very wise man over a hundred years ago said the very same thing.

"I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public." - Booker T. Washington

[ntnychik]

That would explain why nobody mentions Booker T. Washington during Black History month.

[MDLION]

Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, Venerable Pierre Touissant and others are so far above today’s racial hustlers. And they lived in MUCH tougher times. King quoted Thomas Aquinas on just vs. unjust laws from the Birmingham jail. Believe it or not, the elder Jesse Jackson started out very promising, strongly condemning abortion from Chicago. But he wanted power in the Democratic Party.

[Beagle8U]

Booker T looks surprisingly close to Allen West, enough to be closely related.

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btt

[Ohioan]

Booker T. Washington was indeed a very wise man. He truly understood, also, what was intellectually wrong--very wrong--with the NAACP & the destructive movement that it spawned.

Here is Washington's most famous speech: Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address.

While Booker T. Washington's influence was great, the social infra-structure of the Black community improved. When the "Civil Rights Movement" (NAACP) got the upper hand, things began a terrible 60 year unraveling. Ferguson is an example of the effect of that social unraveling.

William Flax