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To: Antoninus
More wisdom from Booker T. Washington:
“Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are” - Booker T. Washington's famous Racial Reconciliation Speech; citing a ship stranded in the dangerous "doldrums"

12 posted on 08/13/2020 10:20:21 AM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, Libs, Progs, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder.)
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To: Perseverando
“Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are” - Booker T. Washington's famous Racial Reconciliation Speech; citing a ship stranded in the dangerous "doldrums"

Yup. That speech was reproduced verbatim in Up from Slavery.

Washington was a healer and a bridge-builder in the best senses of those words. Would that there were more like him.
14 posted on 08/13/2020 11:18:40 AM PDT by Antoninus (The press has lost the ability to persuade. They retain the ability to foment a panic.)
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