Racial Quote of the Day

Guess the author:

"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."

No, it's not a KKK member or some radical Tea Party Patriot, it's Booker T. Washington from his 1901 autobiography Up From Slavery. (h/t Dan Riehl)

Almost sounds like he's describing Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.