Posted on 10/28/2012 6:13:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
“Insane.”
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Yes it is but the word utterly fails to capture the enormity of this absurdity. I really cannot think of a way to express it in words without lapsing into the drunken sailor mode of talking which I learned so well fifty years ago.
Ammunition
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 (1856-1915.) ~
Educator, Author, Civil Rights Leader
I just watch “Cops”.
Really? Why don't they and you GFY!
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