[tflabo]

There is another 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… There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public. -Booker T. Washington

[haroldeveryman]

Booker T. Washington stole my post.

The “breakdown of the black family and all the attendant social pathologies”, and the huge rate of childbirth to black unwed mothers got going in earnest in the 1970’s when the governmnent was subsidizing single motherhood with welfare checks.

The reason that “virtually no one in the black community in any position of authority and responsibility is willing to talk about this issue” is because “black leaders” make a living administering this crap and therefore have a vested interest in perpetuating black social dysfunction.