Thursday, May 15, 2008

Booker T. Washington on Race Pimps.....

In 1911, former slave Booker T. Washington prophetically wrote about "black leaders"....

"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 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 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."

WOW.... Can you say Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright

2 comments:

taipan55 said...

Although I'm usually considered liberal by conservatives and conservative by liberals, I believe that the truth is the truth. This observation is definitely the truth!

Anonymous said...

This quote makes me a bit sad. I mean isnt it sad that Mr Washington a man born in 1800s USA has more understanding about race and society, then the majority of Black men walking around in year 2010.