‘The Grift’ Started Long Before Trump
<p>One is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Booker T. Washington</a> (1856–1915), who, “by insisting that Black people stay poor, uneducated, and docile,” became “a wealthy man, pointedly disregarding his own advice.” He emboldened white supremacists, as they could then point to a Black man who was making their points for them. Cane adds that “if there were Fox News in 1901,” Washington would have had his own show.</p>
<p>Another is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Brooke" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Edward William Brooke III</a>, a Republican who was elected senator from Massachusetts in 1966. A Time Magazine profile “glorified” him a month after he took office “for not being like the <em>other Blacks</em>.” But while Brooke tended not to explicitly align himself with Black movements, nonetheless he was “unafraid of calling out the GOP’s racism”—and today, the GOP avoids mentioning him.</p>
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