Posted on 07/13/2010 8:34:58 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
"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 to make a living out of their own trouble, they have grown into the settle habit of advertising their wrongs - partly because they want sympathy and party 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- My Larger Education, Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
"I'm afraid there is a certain class of race problem solvers who don't 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 - My Larger Education, Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
(Excerpt) Read more at historycooperative.org ...
"My experience is that people who call themselves "The Intellectuals" understand theories, but they do not understand things. I have long been convinced that, if these men could have gone into the South and taken up and become interested in some practical work which would have brought them in touch with people and things, the whole world would have looked very different to them. Bad as conditions might have seemed at first, when they saw that actual progress was being made, they would have taken a more hopeful view of the situation."
Wow! Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton must be real old to have been known by Booker T Washington.
exactly.....that’s second quote especially is almost word for word describing The “Justice Brothers”
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Thanks for that! Racial exploitation is nothing new...
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Rebump an oldie but goodie.
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