"The 'educated Negroes' have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the African"
---This would explain why a lot of Black people are self-hating. They had to learn it from somewhere. Perhaps it is taught at home and reinforced in school.
"Practically all of the successful Negroes in this country are of the uneducated type or of that of Negroes who have had no formal education at all"
--My parents are living proof. Neither of them graduated from college, yet we are economically comfortable and more well off than a lot of college graduates or "educated" Black people.
"As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. It kills one's aspirations and dooms him to vagabondage and crime"
--I agree. If you are taught that you are worthless, then you will become a self-fulfilling prophecy and do things that "worthless" people would do.
"Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?"
--Nobody would care, nobody would fight it, nobody would miss them. Look what happened to the Jews...they were systematically verbally and mentally abused, until they accepted their lower status and were sent to concentration camps with little to no significant (to my knowledge) resistance or assistance, until later.
"In the schools of business administration Negroes are trained exclusively in the psychology and economics of Wall Street and are, therefore, made to despise the opportunities to run ice wagons, push banana carts, and sell peanuts among their own people. Foreigners, who have not studied economics but have studied Negroes, take up this business and grow rich"
VS
--The Koreans DOMINATE the Black hair care business. Why? Because they come here and notice that we are deeply concerned and even obsessed with our hair. They don't have to get a degree in economics to see this. So they start their own business, and make their living off of us. Same thing with Chinese food. Black people are afraid to start their own businesses, and when we do, other Black people don't even really want to support, except a few.
"The differentness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess. It is by the development of these gifts that every race must justify its right to exist"
--I'm not sure how much I agree that every race must justify its right to exist. Probably because I am still undecided about what I define as a race, and because everyone has the right to exist, regardless of race or ethnicity. That being said, I do agree that different does not mean superior or inferior.
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