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Originally Posted by Byte1
"You seem hellbent on denying or at least ignoring the racial/racist component of the whole George Floyd issue."
Is there evidence that the death was racially motivated? Isn't the presumption that it was racist by someone, make them the racist?
Booker T Washington:
“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.”
"There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't 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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Come on, read what I say, not how you'd like to spin it. The "whole George Floyd issue" is NOT only about whether or not not his death was brought about by a racist cop. It is about police racism blacks experience in everyday life. The video of George Floyd's death, with the seemingly cavalier attitude of Officer Chauvin while George kept saying that he couldn't breathe & then calling for his mother were only the spark.
The 100+ year old quote means what exactly? That there is no such thing as racism in the 21st century? Booker T. Washington had many great, optimistic quotes attributed to him. He may well have had other thoughts had he lived through most of the Jim Crow days.