To: parsifal
“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 (1856-1915.)
http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.1/html/430.html
2 posted on
07/23/2009 4:48:41 PM PDT by
mrmeyer
("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
To: mrmeyer
3 posted on
07/23/2009 4:50:34 PM PDT by
eureka!
(Elections have consequences, boy howdy. *sigh*)
To: mrmeyer
"Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” That's an amazing quote even more relevant a hundred years after it was initially said. Amazing.
4 posted on
07/23/2009 4:52:03 PM PDT by
OldDeckHand
(No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
To: mrmeyer
Great quote from a great book. Gates arrest wasn’t racially motivated. It’s far worse than that. Complete abuse of police power.
parsy.
10 posted on
07/23/2009 4:56:11 PM PDT by
parsifal
("Knock and ye shall receive!" (The Bible, somewhere.))
To: mrmeyer
Al $harpton and Je$$e Jack$on obviously got the memo.
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