[fieldmarshaldj]

Charlatans like West were Booker T. Washington’s greatest fear for the Black community.

[Matchett-PI]

You wrote: “Charlatans like West were Booker T. Washington’s greatest fear for the Black community.”

To wit:

“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 wrongs­partly because they want sympathy and partly becausse 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, c. 1910, Autobiographical Writings, Vol. 1, p. 430.

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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
by Thomas Sowell
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3040.Black_Rednecks_and_White_Liberals