I put a reference to this on my blog but don’t have trackback so consider this one

Fortunately, my judgment about your opinion is the only one that ultimately matters on this blog, and I say you misrepresent what I wrote. Perhaps you should learn to explain yourself better and/or read more carefully.

I won’t hold my breath waiting for an apology.

At the time, some 30 years after Emancipation, it was a big deal for a black man to speak to a mostly white audience in the South. Washington was and still is being judged for his “accomodationist” views about black progress. His chief critic, W.E.B. DuBois, believed the speech was important but came to distain Washington’s views.

We’re all too familiar with “artificial forcing,” especially those who had to endure the misguided and ill-conceived policy known as busing.

I stated my opinion and in doing so, I don’t think I was out of line.

To summarize the anti-war referendums: they won in a bunch of small towns (got 18 votes in Couderay) as…

LaShawn Barber has a piece on Booker T. Washington. In her comment section, I wrote something that I am posting here. Plus, I’m adding more. LaShawn’s piece happens to be the catalyst for my finally posting about this, but this

Again, this, to me, is an example of why I think the “conservative” vs. “liberal” “debate” for Blacks is a major waste and an unnecessary distraction.

The debate between Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois was important.

Yes, Booker T. was correct in stating what he did in the quote you provided, but DuBois was also right in being concerned with the civil rights and protections that were being denied to Negroes. It was not wrong to aggitate for fair due process. It was not wrong to argue for “tilling of the soil.”

Why must the debates and views of two of America’s great men be put into a bin of one or the other? Why not both?

Or, as Avery likes to write, why must it be “OR” vs. “AND”?

Perhaps you didn’t notice, DS, but the post is about Booker T., not DuBois. Nowhere in the post do I even imply the “debate” between DuBois and Booker isn’t important. Do me a favor: learn to value good reading comprehension and don’t take out your frustrations about the “liberal v. conservative” concept on me, OK? I take enough heat as it is, and attributing something to me that I didn’t say or imply is not cool. I’ve banned people for less. – Admin

Tomorrow is Booker T. Washington’s birthday, and La Shawn Barber writes a piece summarizing his life and accomplishments. One of the best books I ever read aloud to the kids was his autobiography Up From Slavery.

Well LaShawn: Regarding the controvery between WEB and Booker T, really they were both right. Sort of like Elizabeth Wright from Issues and Views versus a JC Watts type character. She says practical education and capitalism and he says pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Well either way, the intent is to benefit a historically marginalized class of people and obviously the methodology is different. If the tension didn’t exist between those two intellectuals, I wonder if Blacks would have been as successful as we are now. I was always taught that we need people on both sides of the fence and I think that is a more general way of saying that you can skin a cat in more than one way.

BTW the trolls are ridiculous.

Below is a detailed account of the transition from indentured servitude to slavery. It doesn’t mention the reason that you posted. Where did you get your info from?

http://www.balchfriends.org/Glimpse/JPetersIntroBkLaws.htm

Couldn’t happen today, could it.