I had no idea Booker T. Washington was a boot-licking Uncle Tom.
There is another class of coloured 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 do not want to lose their jobs.
— Booker T. Washington
I wonder who’d he be talking about today?
h/t Robert
(likely paraphrased, from memory)
“I will never let any man pull me down so low as to make me hate him.” –Booker T. Washington
I’m gonna save that one and make trouble with it….
In public schools in the mid 70s through the early 80s, I remember learning about Booker T. Washington as a civil rights advocate but not about his specific philosophies. Interestingly, he came back on my radar screen last year when I went back to college and was studying for the American History CLEP exams. I learned then that he and W.E.B. DuBois (co-founder of the NAACP) were famously opposed to one another, DuBois being of the victimhood mindset (my interpretation, not the official one) and blasting Washington at every turn for not being demanding enough. Of course, the study materials I used didn’t contain the quote above, and I want to thank you for sharing it. It confirms my suspicions about the true nature of the rift between Washington and DuBois.
bull’s eye, Brandon, or atleast the Democrat party at it’s core…
It’s like he knew Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton personally….
…so obviously black men that think outside the victimhood mindset are to be ignored at all costs…
I doubt so. I mean, saying there were black patriots during the independence war is like saying the founding fathers weren’t racist…and that would contradict their flawed interpretation of the 3/5′s clause…
Good night! We were never taught that in school … and my elementary schooling was decades ago. I wonder whether today’s kids are even taught anything at all about Booker T. Washington.