The Future of the American Negro

This text was very enlghtening to me about the true feelings that Booker T. Washington had about the advancement of African Americans. Learning about him in different classes, they classified him as an acqiuescer. After reading this piece I realized that Washington was just not as aggresive in his methods of progressing black's future. He did want to advance, he just took the slow approach saying that he lived in the generation that needs to lay the foundation for the next generations to succeed. He believed that becoming certified in the crafts that we were more likely to get jobs in would help blacks us rise out of poverty. He thought that just getting a paper education would not allow African Americans to get jobs and they would forever stay in their economic standings at the time. I thought that Washington came up with many interesting points, however, my only probably was that he did not completely finish his thought. He failed to say after all of the blacks become carpenters and things of that nature how exactly they were going to be able to transition into getting a "exalted position."