Of Mr. Booker T. Washington, The Great Leader Of The Negro, Has Been Said Many T

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Term Paper Title	Of Mr. Booker T. Washington, The Great Leader Of The Negro, Has Been Said Many T
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     Of Mr. Booker T. Washington, the great leader of the Negro, has been said many things.  Things ranging from the subtle to the perverse, but most often than not, the balance of criticism leaned towards the latter.  We are left to believe of him as a backtracker whose ideas have slacked down those of previous leaders who aimed at equality of social rights for the Negro.  Certainly if we are to judge Mr. Booker T. Washington by the mere way he portrayed his ideas, it would be no wonder for us the downpour of criticism that fell upon his back.  But it would be very irrational and narrow-minded to limit one's perception to what he projected and not see that, in the face of the times and his position, he sought a shrewd way to achieve a goal, a goal very akin with his contemporaries and previous leaders, differing only in the extent to which he was willing to go to fulfill it.  I suggest then the deep analysis of Booker T. Washington's speech to reveal he was a mere trickster that knew how to best satisfied the skewed mind of the white in order to save the future of his people.

     Booker T. Washington in his address delivered at the opening of The Cotton States' Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia meant to attain at least three goals. The first was of course the most clear-cut, that of winning white advocates that would sponsor his cause (albeit by the use of trickery).  The second was that behind the purpose of the trickery itself, advancing his fellow brothers.  Trying to bypass whites' mindset and actually making whites help the black cause.  And the third and last but not least important was that of delivering a moral speech on dignity and pride for both blacks and whites.  All these three goals show Booker T. Washington's aims, by means of trickery.  These ideas will be more fully exposed and dealt with in the coming sections of this paper.
Washington understood the white mind

     The most clear-cut goal of Washington's address was that of winning definite support of whites towards his cause.  Washington not only understood the white men's mindset, but also his history, how they interacted between them and what sort of things move them.  Humans, Sigmund Freud once said, are egocentric, they won't do anything for other humans unless there is any rewarding or satisfying outcome to what they are about to invest their time and energy into.  Perhaps Sigmund Freud, been white himself, stated a theorem only applicable to his own race, more specifically to the Western c...

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