What are your thoughts on this Booker T. Washington quote?....?

Question

It was made in the late 1800's/Early 1900's... Is it applicable now?
"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the ***** 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 ***** to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs....There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not 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."

Answer 1

That is a great quote and too bad it still applies to this day. I think greatly applies to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. I do believe they are honestly trying to help, but they jump on the wagon with some things so quickly that I don't believe they have gathered all the facts.

Answer 2

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/opinion/16herbert.html