These United States of America were built by men like Booker T. Washington — at first by their muscles, under compulsion, then later by their minds and hearts, freely given.Read more here.
He quotes from Washington's book Up From Slavery:
"I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him..."
“I have learned,” he said, “that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”
Yesterday I wrote a post defending Saul Alinsky. I wrote the post to counter some of the negative things I read about him by conservative pundits. It is guilt by association: because Obama and Hillary use some of Alinsky's tactics to promote their own rise to power, when the truth is that Alinsky was trying to empower people who were exploited and discriminated against.
Booker T. Washington had a better approach: teaching people to read, to take individual responsibility for their lives, and not to wallow in victimhood.
Update: Here is the moving video of Scott telling us about Booker T. Washington:
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