Chittlin' Talk: Thank You, Sir, May I Have Another? Sharpton Puts Obama Through a Political Hazing Ritual

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Thank You, Sir, May I Have Another? Sharpton Puts Obama Through a Political Hazing Ritual

"Ah, yes, the old 'he's not black enough' routine. This too seems to be part of the hazing ritual. We saw it in 2002, the first time Corey Booker ran for mayor of Newark, when Jesse Jackson called him "a wolf in sheep's clothing," and his opponent, four-term Newark mayor Sharpe James, called him "a faggot white boy" and said, "You have to learn to be an African-American, and we don't have time to train you." Sharpton also campaigned for the ethically-challenged James instead of the reform-minded Booker."

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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."