"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." —Booker T. Washington, freed slave, educator, orator
He was so right so why is he not a mentor a hero to his own race instead of the racist examples we see today, always looking 200 years behind them. Work for what you want, get all the education you can, work and live well with others, make your country proud to be American.
the more things change, the more they stay the same :(
ReplyDeleteHe was so right so why is he not a mentor a hero to his own race instead of the racist examples we see today, always looking 200 years behind them. Work for what you want, get all the education you can, work and live well with others, make your country proud to be American.
ReplyDeleteIf they can't find some current event to whine about, they can always fall back on slavery from the 1860's.
ReplyDeleteThe culture has been warped. History goes in cycles, and if we don't learn from it, we're doomed to repeat it
ReplyDeleteWOW I knew in high school this was a smart gentleman but never heard this statement.
ReplyDeleteAmen Brother!
ReplyDeleteGot to love when someone reads the cover of a book and one quote, then suddenly thinks they know something about a man's stance or an issue.
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ReplyDeleteWas and is a positive role model for any person, young or old.
As a sidebar, he sounded pretty good playing with the MGs a few years back!