[eddie willers]

You know Sam, to my knowledge I have never heard Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton refer to Frederick Douglass in any speech.

You won't hear them mention Booker T. Washington either.

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.

Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."

[TheForceOfOne]

A good reason they don't throw accolades at Condi Rice or any other prominent official in service to the Bush Administration.