Chittlin' Talk: Imus, Duke and the politics of race

Saturday, April 14, 2007

"The extent to which we handle race as a political rather than a moral problem, we're going to get it wrong.

"Who, after all, is going to define the rules of engagement? Al Sharpton? Jesse Jackson?

"Both were part of the problem in the Duke case. Both were more than glad to feed the racial flames, and both were dead wrong."

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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."