[Lacey]

"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. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."

--Booker T. Washington, 1911

Ms Braun is but one example.

[fatnotlazy]

"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. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."
--Booker T. Washington, 1911

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Truer words were never spoken. I have long though that the two so-called Reverends -- Jackson and Sharpton -- keep bringing up allegations of racism (true or not) simply because if they didn't, neither of them would be gainfully employed for long. This is how they make their living, posing in front of cameras and hurling unfounded accusations.

If they had the interests of "their people" at heart, why weren't they in NO or Biloxi or Gulfport or any of the other areas hard hit by Katrina -- to do some real work helping the desolate people? I didn't see either of them in the disaster areas handing out food, shoveling out the mess or doing anything meaningful to help out. Afraid to get their hands dirty?

[SueRae]

Oh, how true.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Why isn't she in jail ?

[Unam Sanctam]

What a great, and perfectly accurage quote from Booker T. Thanks for posting.

[joesnuffy]

Thank you for the Washington quote...had not read that before.
The man knew his stuff..