As Booker Gently Weeps
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Booker T. led Tuskegee Institute. Under his and George Washington Carver's leadership, in the two decades of 1900's and 1910's there were more future self-made millionaires graduating from Tuskegee than from Harvard, Princeton, and Yale combined.
Without welfare. Without abortion. In the deep South, Alabama to be precise.
A black man who should be revered in black society, but too often is labeled an Uncle Tom.
Maybe it was something he said...
“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 not want to lose their jobs.”
― Booker T. Washington -
Washington showed what the black man could do, not what he could not.
Today, do we ever hear of anybody on the Left talk with any sense of optimism about what black society could do, if that society preached work ethic, integrity, and creating opportunities in American society?
I worked with a black lady named Ann (her middle name, not commonly known) for over twenty years. She was college-educated, as was her black husband. Many thought her husband was just a FedEx driver. They might have been surprised that he only drove the FedEx truck because he made a good living doing it, and it helped supplement his marketing business that he was trying to get off the ground (he had a Master's in Marketing). Those jobs helped her side-business of dabbling in real estate. They lived a good life...I used to joke with Ann that her master bathroom was half as big as my house.
They were members of the upper crust of black society in town. These folks would be indistinguishable from any other upper middle-class group of folks. They worked hard, they were well educated, their children were pushed to succeed. In Ann's case, she had a boy and a girl, both in whom she expected a lot. Her kids worked from the time they could rake a yard or push a lawnmower. They ran their own little business with her help. In winter, they worked at McDonald's. All the while, making sure they stayed on the honor roll at school.
Her boy became an engineer and works for Boeing. Her daughter is a pharmacist. Others in their social circle had children who became a doctor, an engineer at NASA, a college professor, nurses, teachers, a small-town mayor and a couple of lawyers. Yes, some work lower-profile, less well-paying jobs such as police or government employees, but I don't know of a single child from that group that isn't a member of middle-class America.
But the Left does not talk about the Ann's in America. They never focus on the successful, the hard-working, the good. As in Washington's quote, there is no profit and no power in that.
And until the majority of black society quits listening to the race-baiters and the people who wish to feed them a steady diet of oppression pills, they'll continue to under-perform and struggle.
