Here is what another civil rights leader said about Lewis types over 100 years ago:
Booker T. Washington: “Up from Slavery” (1901)
“There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the N*gro 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 N*gro 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.”
Interesting discussion on Tucker Carlson with a former Black Panther Party member who echoed similar sentiments:
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‘John Lewis wants to oppress black America’. In this explosive interview on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’. Former Black Panther party member Mason Weaver does not mince his words by saying that John Lewis is an illegitimate Congressman who keeps getting richer while black people in his district and in the US get poorer. Mr Weaver describes Congressman John Lewis as a democratic puppet working for democratic interests to destruct the black community. - Tucker Carlson Tonight - Fox News.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK0Zxuz3f64
THANK YOU for sharing the Booker T Washington quote. Truly a great GREAT AMERICAN.
I have spent the past few 4th of July holidays trekking to the Booker T Washington National Monument in Virginia. I plan to do it again this year. It is a very peaceful, hallowed piece of ground, so important to our American history. I wish I knew how to post a picture, I would include one here of the site.
Thanks for the quote.
Now, off to the library.
Excellent find.