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To: Sybeck1
I don't think Booker T. Washington and Obama were on the same page:

"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

4 posted on 05/10/2011 10:07:15 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity
Recently read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington. Great book, short read, every American should read it.

He had some great things to say about Union strikes, but this one seemed appropriate in the context of 0bama....

“Among a large class (in Washington D.C.) there seemed to be a dependence upon the Government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the Federal officials to create one for them.” Booker T. Washington

21 posted on 05/10/2011 10:23:09 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: circlecity

As true today as it was in 1911.


30 posted on 05/10/2011 10:32:50 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: circlecity
There is a class of colored people

My guess is that Obama has not a clue what Booker T. Washington's position was on race baiting for votes or profit.

I would also be willing to make a small wager that Obama is also clueless about Fredrick Douglas and more importantly and more recently Thomas Sowell.

40 posted on 05/10/2011 12:49:48 PM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
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