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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. 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.

-Booker T. Washington

[Twinkie]

Booker T. was so right on target and ahead of his time that it’s scary. There is a class of colored people who have gotten filthy rich keeping the sore of past grievances picked and festering due to their own greed and selfishness. The people of this country have paid and paid and paid for slavery - and the dirty little secret is that, until the white man is destitute, this class of colored people will not be what they think is “happy”.

Rush commented yesterday on how the Asian immigrants came to this country and seized every opportunity and in one generation are on top of the game. The black race is in a “we are owed” trap and a lot of them don’t feel like they even have to try, and all they have to do is become arrogant and angry the more the white man tries to do to help matters. Now, they belong to the Democrat Party which owns them, and it is sad.

[Eva]

Booker T. Washington said that? He must have been a typical white man.

[rlmorel]

His book, “Up From Slavery” is a great read.

He took a great deal of heat from the black community for suggesting they needed to learn trades as a way of breaking down the barriers, and that it was the responsibility of blacks to do that.

In his mind, if blacks could provide useful services at reasonable prices, then they would get white customers.

I think he was right. For saying that, he was branded as an “Uncle Tom” by other blacks. Not much different that what some say today about black conservatives like Clarence Thomas, Condoleeza Rice, Thomas Sowell et al.