Eliminating the role of race and racism in an analysis of Browns death and reactions to it deprives the race-grievance industry of more riches.
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.) ~ Educator, Author, Civil Rights Leader
Never let a tragic event involving black Americans and [enter anything here as long as it has to connection to African-Americans; except Oreo cookies and the like] . . . .
should read:
Never let a tragic event involving black Americans and [enter anything here as long as it has no connection to African-Americans; except Oreo cookies and the like]