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Old 07-24-2009, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by cobra de capell View Post
“There is a 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.”

- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915.)
Somebody must have told ol' Booker T about the reverends Jesse and Al.

Sounds like Obama might be the one who needs to do the apologizing. Racial profiling works both ways.
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