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I said I didn't necessarily disagree with the basic point, as made in the 21st century after the Civil War, the Civil Rights Act and other legislation, Brown v. Board, etc. But quoting Booker T. Washington to make it is downright funny it's so misguided.
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Booker T. was born in slavery and was more in tune with the reality of life for southern blacks. As bad as life was for blacks in the 50's and 60's, it was much worse at the turn of the century. Booker T. was doing his best to improve the lot of his people. And being in tune to reality in the south, he knew he had to do a little going along to get along. As I said earlier, his approach ultimately proved unsuccessful and blacks were correct to DEMAND their rights in the 50's and 60's, but then again, do you really think MLK would have succeeded back in Booker's time? I seriously doubt it. I maintain he was the right man at the time and helped lay a groundwork for the modern civil rights movement to build upon. |
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I thought Booker T, now known as King Booker was a WWE Wrassler?
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I agree that that oversimlifies and does not do justice to the proposition he was trying to support by citing Booker T. But I was not necessarily challenging the point that Venkman was trying to support. Just the way he tried to support it.
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As for Booker T. saying it back then, was it a good or bad thing? I don't know, not knowing the full context in which it was made. |
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