Enough of Bigotry from Black Instructors

From a sister who is a student at a Historically Black College:

"I am tired of hearing instructors talk about the white man's conspiracy to keep the black man down.

"Some very impressionable students are so moved that they start believing every negative word. So when a teacher says that white folks are against blacks, they assume that even white instructors on campus are out to get them.

"Let's get real: All white people in America don't wake up and plot the downfall of our entire race.

"They have better things to do.

"And even if one white person were trying to eradicate us all, he or she would never succeed.

"I know that some of our black instructors are only trying to prepare us for the hardships we may face after college. But if we leave school expecting bad things to happen to us because we are black, we will see only the bad in every situation we face with a white person.

"It is not logical to live our lives always expecting to be the victim.

"I know that racism still exists in America, but I also know that America is no longer segregated. Even if you agree with those instructors, sooner or later you will have to deal with white people. Life will be easier if you approach every person as an individual, instead of trying to dislike anyone based solely on race.

"Let's not believe every word that comes from our instructors. Let's learn from our own experiences.

"As Eagles, we don't need to stoop to the level of ordinary birds. Let's soar above the bigotry of some of our instructors."

("A White man musta done paid her to write that mess!")

What did Booker T. Washington say:

"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. 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 do not 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."

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