Two quotes to consider…(Booker T. Washington)
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
“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.
The darker Washington gets no respect
That’s saved for much younger white wife in tow Douglass .....the leftist of Reconstruction black thought
When I share those quotes on other sites I have to disguise Negro as ‘Ngo’
because publishers are wont to ban the whole post based on his use of the word Negro.
It makes me sick to my stomach and shake my head to see the thoughts and opinions
of one of the most respected American Negros banned for his use of this word.