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Booker T. Washington ....“There is another class of coloured - people who make a business of keeping

Posted: Oct 18th, 2019 - 12:24 pm In Reply to: Blacks could have gone back to Africa after the Civil - War, but Frederick Douglass

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.”

He was a wise man in many respects. He described "race hustlers" quite eloquently.

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From Slavery to Bravery--Frederick Douglass - An example for a way off the Democrat plantation (Views: 455, 2019-10-18, 9:33 am)
- Blacks could have gone back to Africa after the Civil - War, but Frederick Douglass (Views: 299, 2019-10-18, 9:38 am)
  - Clueless and racist attempt to discuss a subject you will never experience or comprehend. - SM (Views: 387, 2019-10-18, 10:01 am)
    - Nothing racist about it. It was discussed by Lincoln and - Douglass about letting blacks (Views: 290, 2019-10-18, 11:36 am)
    - Have you never heard of the Back-to-Africa movement? - Most of us learned about Frederick (Views: 247, 2019-10-18, 12:01 pm)
      - Don't make the mistake (like I did) that many people - here know American history. (Views: 265, 2019-10-18, 12:14 pm)
    - Who is clueless and racist? Republic of Liberia is the - west African nation founded by (Views: 278, 2019-10-18, 12:06 pm)
    - That's wonderful that an African American can become - a doctor and get rich in this country. (Views: 306, 2019-10-18, 12:46 pm)
    - Some blacks DID go back to Africa. Why is that racist? - I'm still trying to figure that out. (Views: 264, 2019-10-18, 12:49 pm)
    - I don't think it's necessary to insult MT's. - nm (Views: 252, 2019-10-18, 2:56 pm)
  - I learned that in school back in the 60s. He was not in - favor of the Back-To-Africa movement. (Views: 274, 2019-10-18, 11:40 am)
    - I learned it from a black female Army Colonel, I guess - that makes her a "racist" too (Views: 263, 2019-10-19, 3:17 am)
  - Booker T. Washington ....“There is another class of coloured - people who make a business of keeping
    - Ditto x10! - nm (Views: 252, 2019-10-18, 1:28 pm)
  - Slavery persists in Saudi Arabia. Today when we speak - of slavery in the Muslim world, (Views: 285, 2019-10-18, 1:19 pm)
- Frederick Douglass on the US Constitution: - “Interpreted as it ought to be (Views: 304, 2019-10-18, 9:39 am)
  - Frederick Douglass was also a Repubilcan. - nm (Views: 262, 2019-10-18, 12:21 pm)
    - Go back and see what Republicans were then - Compare to now (Views: 264, 2019-10-20, 9:21 am)
- Excellent post! - SM (Views: 322, 2019-10-18, 9:59 am)
  - Indeed. Especially if history teaches about - people who refused to be (Views: 296, 2019-10-18, 11:30 am)
- This is manufactured rationale in which black people - SouthernBorderMT (Views: 251, 2019-10-19, 12:21 pm)
  - HUH? - #WalkAway (Views: 268, 2019-10-19, 4:22 pm)