W.E.B. Dubois is rolling over in his grave. Talented tenth and the Boule done lawst their position at massa's feet.
Time to come on home y'all and think of a new strategy that doesn't involve bootlicking.
That reminds me: who was worse? WEB or Booker Washington?
Because Booker T Washington wanted a "go slow" approach (self-explanatory), and for blacks to submit to southern rule, in hopes that they get basic industrial training to eventually rise up decades later and that shyt. Just read his Atlanta Compromise... :malcomc00n:
I don't wanna bash on Booker T since the situation was new back then without any real precedent on how to solve it though
Anyway, I think WEB's "talented tenth" I think was taken out of context.
Yep the executives and producers pull the strings.
I will never forget how that early morning TV show the daily buzz (on WB) that had the 3 white folks and the one black girl on it.
Damn near every week they would talk about some bull shyt subject about black folks. From black violence, single mothers to the need for HBCUs. Every time the white folks would take a conservative fox news stance on it with the sista having to defend black folks. At the same time she would throw in her white husband and mixed black children as to not look like she hates white folks
Yet with all that going on the producer of the show was a sista with nothing but black folks behind the camera and in the control room.
This woman here?
low key, Al has pushed back more in the last few years and you can tell its pissed people off.I was just having a little fun with all of this. At the end of the day, these people are all millionaires, not sure anyone should be feeling bad about this. I actually know Al Roker's dentist (my mother goes to him in Queens). The biggest takeaway is that the c00ning that is done by black personalities in the media only seems to get you temporary clout. Once they have used you, they discard you like day old bread.
There is this prevailing notion that you can't continue to be yourself when you get on, especially as a black person. I think it all depends on how greedy you are. Some of these people let their greed and wanting to be up under WP blind them to the incoming fukkery. It's usually a matter of when, not if.
P.S. I also respect both Dubois and Booker T, but the historical black figure that I always rocked with was Benjamin Banneker, who was just black excellence to the fullest.
Damn, Melissa Harris-Perry was right. Cornel West also predicted this would happen after Obama left office.
Yep that is the sista that was on the show debating them crazy white folks. Then the nerve of the producer and the people behind the scenes being black....