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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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From: POKERSAM5/12/2015 9:16:04 PM
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Booker T Washington clear back in 1911 had this thing figured out.

“There is another class of coloured 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.”

He was a great and wise man. The Negro race of our day needs to wise up and recognize that the race baiters of today are the same that Booker T. recognized a hundred years ago.
Stop whining and stand up like a man as Booker T washington did. Then the respect you wish for will be earned and given. I am sick of the "poor me, poor me, I don't get no respect" crap that I hear constantly.
Act like a man and you will be respected and treated as one. It does not matter what color you are.
Act like a sniviling whining victim of everything and everybody and that is what you will be seen as.

One of the best friends I have ever had was a black man. He was a real man. He respected himself and earned the respect of all who knew him. When he was married I was the only white man at his wedding. I was welcomed by his and his wife's family. I saw in his family why he was the person that he was. I counted it an honour to be invited to be there.
A year or so after they were married, he and his wife adopted a black baby. It was not because they could not have children. I questioned him as to why they had decided to adopt the baby. He said that he and his wife had been blessed with so much they felt the need to share it with a baby who needed it.
Yes, he was a real man. I never once heard him whine or complain about how he was treated as a black man.. Yes, there was a couple of times I witnessed him suffering small slights at the hands of ones not worthy to tie his shoes. It hurt me but it was never mentioned between us. He was too proud to acknowledge it and I respected him too much to acknowledge it.
His job took him away from the area and after a couple of years we Iost track of each other. I would love to talk to him. I am sure he would be the same kind proud man I knew years ago.

I don't think the US has a race problem. I think it has a culture problem. It is not a problem of race. It is a problem of cultures. Whites do not see blacks as they do because they are black. Blacks do not see whites as they do because they are white. It is not race. It is culture. This is a clash of cultures and perceptions in all of their differences. Put that aside and race does not matter. It did not matter between my friend and me.

Maybe someday the black race baiters who make a living off of the victimhood of the blacks in our country will be gone. Maybe then the black population will work to solve their social problems and begin to act like men taking responsibility for themselves. No one can solve their social problems but they themselves. They need tobe told they can. Not told they can't because whites will not let them. They need a real black leader.
Maybe someday bigoted elitist whites who use race and the creation of a constant dependent class as a means to power and control will be gone.
Left will be the whites and blacks who wish the best for all Americans, black and white. People who will always be ready to lend a hand to any person struggling to get up.
Then maybe we can work things out and respect one another as men. That is what I would love to see. It did not happen in Booker T. Washington's life time nor will it happen in mine. But maybe someday.
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