Thought To Ponder, C'mon Say It Ain't So

"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. ... There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public." -- Booker T. Washington in his 1911 book, My Larger Education
Found on PatriotPost.com

Soap Box Ravings can only imagine the size of the group who makes a business of keeping the troubles, wrongs and hardships of the Negro race (Colored, Black, and/or Minority) before the public today. While it still includes many folks of color, it also now includes many who do not qualify by virtue of race or color and/or minority status but who have found a lucrative way to manipulate situations for their benefit.