I’ve read “Up from Slavery”, and Booker T. Washington is a man I have a lot of respect for. He was a hard working, common-sense man, and I imagine if someone had a comment about strictly race, he would have said something like “Yes...yes. I don’t have time for that. We have obstacles to climb, and we should get busy climbing them.”
But in many corners of the black community, he was disparaged and marginalized.
Too bad the black community ended up listening to people like WEB Dubois and Jesse Jackson, up to Barack Obama.
Then there is Herman Cain.