Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) black leader and consultant to President Roosevelt and President Taft, “There is another class of black people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the black 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 a black to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” Still true 100 years later.