"NPR's Phillip Martin reports on how easy it is to stumble while walking the line between being 'not black enough' and 'too black'. When Washington DC Mayor Anthony Williams accepted the resignation of an aide who used the word 'niggardly' in a meeting, a torrent of protest ensued. The controversy comes on the heels of a Washington Post opinion piece that questioned whether Williams was 'black enough' to lead the predominantly Afro-American capitol city. It's a question that confronts many black public officials who walk the line between being 'too black' for some and 'not black enough' for others. "
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Booker T. Washington said:
"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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