Booker T. Washington said that "We can be separate as fingers in all things purely social, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" in his acclaimed 1895, "Atlanta Exposition" speech. Many liberal historians, and so-called "race leaders" of that era, maligned him and castigated this sentence as "The Atlanta Compromise." These wise words are still presently rejected by liberal, integrationist-civil rights leaders, who persist in pursuing white folks wherever two or three them may gather to get social equality by osmosis, by mere association. The current state of public education in America is, in part, due to this irrational persistence, whose objective was always the social integration of bodies, not the education of minds; nor the redistribution of resources; nor the remediation of inferiority complexes; nor the alleviation of poverty; all of which salutary ends, the "Wizard of Tuskegee," Booker T. Washington sought till his death in 1915 for us.
Saturday, May 17, 2014
INTEGRATION SPOLIATION IN EDUCATION
Booker T. Washington said that "We can be separate as fingers in all things purely social, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" in his acclaimed 1895, "Atlanta Exposition" speech. Many liberal historians, and so-called "race leaders" of that era, maligned him and castigated this sentence as "The Atlanta Compromise." These wise words are still presently rejected by liberal, integrationist-civil rights leaders, who persist in pursuing white folks wherever two or three them may gather to get social equality by osmosis, by mere association. The current state of public education in America is, in part, due to this irrational persistence, whose objective was always the social integration of bodies, not the education of minds; nor the redistribution of resources; nor the remediation of inferiority complexes; nor the alleviation of poverty; all of which salutary ends, the "Wizard of Tuskegee," Booker T. Washington sought till his death in 1915 for us.
