"One commonality between the two interview sessions was the view some of the African-American listeners of the show had toward the idea of apologizing for slavery. Several callers, one especially so, were upset over the idea of apologizing for slavery and not for the Jim Crow Laws and the pain and humiliation caused by them. The callers, as if speaking in a single voice, stated that slavery was not the issue for them. Jim Crow is! They stated that they and many of their loved ones had lived and suffered through it, and not slavery. They could remember Jim Crow, but could not remember slavery because they were not alive."
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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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