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Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Speech ADDRESS BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, PRINCIPAL TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA, AT OPENING OF ATLANTA EXPOSITION, Sept. 18th, 1895. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Board of Directors and Citizens: One third of the population of the South is of the Negro race. No enterprise seeking the material, civil, or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the highest success. I but convey to you, Mr. President and Directors, the sentiment of the masses of my race when I say that in no way have the value and manhood of the American Negro been more fittingly and generously recognized than by the managers of this magnificent Exposition at every stage of its progress. It is a recognition that will do more to cement the friendship of the two races than any occurrence since the dawn of our freedom. Not only this, but the opportunity here afforded will awaken among us a new era of industrial progress. Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the State Legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden. A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal: "Water, water; we die of thirst!" The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back: "Cast down your bucket where you are." A second time the signal, "Water, water; send us water!" ran up from the distressed vessel, and was answered: "Cast down your bucket where you are." And a third and fourth signal for water was answered: "Cast down your bucket where you are." The captain of the distressed vessel, at last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the am*zon River. To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land, or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next door neighbor, I would say: "Cast down your bucket where you are" — cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded. Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the professions. And in this connection it is well to bear in mind that whatever other sins the South may be called to bear, when it comes to business, pure and simple, it is in the South that the Negro is given a man's chance in the commercial world, and in nothing is this Exposition more eloquent than in emphasizing this chance. Our greatest danger is, that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life; shall prosper in proportion as we learn to draw the line between the superficial and the substantial, the ornamental gewgaws of life and the useful. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top. Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities. To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits for the prosperity of the South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race, "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down among the 8,000,000 Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides. Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labor wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, built your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent representation of the progress of the South. Casting down your bucket among my people, helping and encouraging them as you are doing on these grounds, and to education of head, hand, and heart, you will find that they will buy your surplus land, make blossom the waste places in your fields, and run your factories. While doing this, you can be sure in the future, as in the past, that you and your families will be surrounded by the most patient, faithful, law-abiding, and unresentful people that the world has seen. As we have proved our loyalty to you in the past, in nursing your children, watching by the sick bed of your mothers and fathers, and often following them with tear-dimmed eyes to their graves, so in the future, in our humble way, we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach, ready to lay down our lives, if need be, in defense of yours, interlacing our industrial, commercial, civil, and religious life with yours in a way that shall make the interests of both races one. In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all. If anywhere there are efforts tending to curtail the fullest growth of the Negro, let these efforts be turned into stimulating, encouraging, and making him the most useful and intelligent citizen. Effort or means so invested will pay a thousand percent interest. These efforts will be twice blessed--"blessing him that gives and him that takes. "There is no escape through law of man or God from the inevitable: “The laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed; And close as sin and suffering joined We march to fate abreast.” Nearly sixteen millions of hands will aid you in pulling the load upwards, or they will pull you against the load downwards. We shall constitute one third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one third its intelligence and progress; we shall contribute one third to the business and industrial prosperity of the South, or we shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic. Gentlemen of the Exposition, as we present to you our humble effort at an exhibition of our progress, you must not expect overmuch. Starting thirty years ago with ownership here and there in a few quilts and pumpkins and chickens (gathered from miscellaneous sources), remember the path that has led from these to the inventions and production of agricultural implements, buggies, steam engines, newspapers, book, statuary, carving, paintings, the management of drug stores and banks has not been trodden without contact with thorns and thistles. While we take pride in what we exhibit as a result of our independent efforts, we do not for a moment forget that our part in this exhibition would fall far short of your expectations but for the constant help that has come to our educational life, not only from the Southern States, but especially from Northern philanthropists, who have made their gifts a constant stream of blessing and encouragement. The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercises of these privileges. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house. In conclusion, may I repeat that nothing in thirty years has given us more hope and encouragement, and drawn us so near to you of the white race, as this opportunity offered by the Exposition; and here bending, as it were, over the altar that represents the results of the struggles of your race and mine, both starting practically empty-handed three decades ago, I pledge that in your effort to work out the great and intricate problem which God has laid at the doors of the South you shall have at all times the patient, sympathetic help of my race; only let this be constantly in mind that, while from representations in these buildings of the product of field, of forest, of mine, of factory, letters, and art, much good will come, yet far above and beyond material benefit, will be that higher good, that let us pray God will come, in a blotting out of sectional differences and racial animosities and suspicions, in a determination to administer absolute justice, in a willing obedience among all classes to the mandates of law. This, this, coupled with our material prosperity, will bring into our beloved South a new heaven and a new earth. URL Source https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/washington-atlanta-exposition-address-speech-text/ MY THOUGHTS- paragraph by paragraph Book T washington like Frederick Douglass had a personal relationship with non black women that explained their personal affinity for the united states of america. Booker t washington's wife was a white asian while frederick douglass had a white mistress a generation or more younger than him. He is wrong to speak for the majority of black people whose sentiment he falsely defines. But I comprehend like Douglass like W.E.B. Dubois when younger, they knew most Black people in the usa circa 1865 were anti white plus anti usa in all earnest. So all three knew to get the white financing they got: Douglass /white abolitionist[abolition of enslavement not black uplifting], W.E.B. Dubois/white jew[utilizing blacks to profit from while change the white populace t a judeo christian], Washington/white southern christians[ white fiscal libertarians of the south, looking to rebuild the south while oppose the coming era of the welfare state that is dominant today but had signs back then] they each suggested they spoke for the majority in the black populace when in truth none of them did. Garvey spoke for the majority in the black populace more than any of them, douglass/dubois/washington. Washington's point here has truth. The integration of W.E.B. Dubois when younger is the one that prevailed from this time. It is of black individuals succeeding in the white community., while the black community simply doesn't exist. a black populace exist but not a community. Washington would be 100% correct if not for one key problem, that he doesn't mention. White people. White people from his time onward, throughout the Jim crow era, 1865 to 1980 had never ending campaigns of terror toward black people in the united states of america, especially whenever black people showed signs of ownership, craft. Was it black people's fault Rosewood, a black town or city, or that the black region of tulsa, a city of parts, were annihilated by whites? Did the black people of rosewood or black tulsa commit a crime? no. White people committed crimes assaulting/murdering/arsoning black people and their homes and their land, and said whites were never approached by the rule of law for their actions. So white people killed Booker t washington's strategy but murdering a majority of black rural life in the usa, until 1980 when the black populace of the usa has become in majority urbanized and developed a well earned heritage against rural life. How many black people's dairy farms or truck gardens were destroyed or stolen by whites from 1865 to 1980? moreover, asking black people, or any people, to be eternally determined while being eternally terrorized is an insult, to any people. Remember a black baby born in 1865 who lived to 1965, a hundred years later lived their entire life in jim crow. Case closed. Unfortunately, whites of the south proved Booker T Washington simply wrong. Again, Rosewood/Black Tulsa, and does anyone know how many black towns/black regions of cities were destroyed/harmed/assaulted by white terorrist, whom Booker T washington called white neighbors? You can't argue against what people live. Booker T Washington is asking for Black people to have a faith in the south of all places... when I think of my forebears in the south who sharecropped, who fled white terror, who had their land taken by white power... Booker T Washington asks too much from black people in the u.s.a. , a people who were given no aid when finally legally made free by the white vote, who were 90% in the former confederacy, and lived through over one hundred years of pure white terror. How can any black person have faith in the states that made the former confederacy: texas to maryland plus borderland of neighboring states, when black children are being hanged while white people smile or mock, pregnant black women burned alive... Washington asks more than any majority can allow. yes, a minority of black people from 1865 to today truly love the south, and believe in befriending the white southerner but the white southerner made sure the majority of blacks , will never trust them or the south by their own hands. Washington is correct, it is never wise to dwell on the past. But, while one can not dwell on their mother being violated, are they to dismiss their wife? and if they do are they also then to dismiss their daughter? when does the modernity of grievances to the white terrorizer have more value than the financial opportunities given by the white terrorizer? And in the jim crow era, 1865 to 1980, the white community in majority in the united states of america was a daily terrorist through aiding or abetting the minority of whites who committed crimes to blacks. Washington feared that the emphasis on paperwork from colleges or universities over skills learned in use, would lead to a falseness of quality, and it happened. Whereas Black people in 1865 could barely read or write because whites made black people learning to read or write illegal, Blacks in 1865 had a mastery of multitudes of crafts no other people before or after had, or has, in the united states of america. But again, white terror did a thorough job. Booker t washington couldn't offer protection, he could only offer the concept of determination while a black person's town burns. Washington's advice to whites was wise, but whites didn't heed it. The whites of the south didn't treat their black neighbors with evenness or love but with terror with treachery with abuse of power.. and as white terror never abated, black patience to the south or whites of the south died, black faith in the south or in the possibilities of the south died, black resentment was emboldened and strengthened to the south beyond the max, and the majority of black activity that black people felt dignity in was only through illegal acts in the south . Washington wasn't wrong but whites didn't heed him. in the end, the fiscally wealthy whites who supported his cause, didn't have control over the majority of fiscally common white folks in the south, who were born and raised, before and after the war between the states, to delete any sign of black happiness or to generate black woe no matter the condition of black people. Washington was wrong, what he calls loyalty was fear. The enslaved black person was not loyal to the white slaver, they were afraid. I comprehend why Booker T said that, whites regardless of their fiscal condition, like the idea of reimagining the confederacy and the states of it before the war between the states as having a loving black populace. A lie, but one whites have never let go, in a true sign of shame on ones guilt. The integrationist in booker t washington comprehended that the united states of america will always be multiracial in its human makeup. yes, the usa is a white country, but it has never been only of a white people. So , the imbalances between the peoples in the usa will only lead to inevitable splinters. When? who knows exactly. and many white leaders in the confederacy states before the confederacy or after, from thomas jefferson to andrew jackson to Jefferson Davis to Robert e lee to strom thurman all chose to hinder the black populace in said lands and kick the need for all, not just the white , to prosper in the south, which leads to 2026 , where many of said states have white majority populaces, with some non white euroopean allies, who are trying to excommunicate the non white european in masse as a solution after their leaders chose to hinder the non white for over one hundred years . Booker T was prophetic. The bottom five states by the value of revenue per person are all former confederate states. Case closed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP#50_states_and_Washington,_D.C. Unfortunately, patience has never been a strong element of white financial life in the usa. White financial life in the european colonies that preceded the united states of america was never about patience, but speed. Kill native americans for land, not pay native americans for land, or pay to lease land from the native american. Enslave black people to get wage below market value, not pay market value which will diminish revenue earned to whites. Whites in the usa have never used patience with fiscal capitalism. Booker T washington pleading for whites of the usa to have patience financially, is asking for a miracle. Washington's point here is hard to positively regale a populace of black people who were enslaved to whites and are being terrorized by whites . Booker T is basically saying abuse is human nature, and that said abuse whether in the form of a white man whipping the skin off a black child or a white law enforcer betraying the law to abuse a civil black person or a white fiscal operator producing a terrorizing contract on black people who can't read or any abuse from whites to blacks is a possibility in human life. He adds that the abused black person by white terror in the usa has to focus on ways to not being abused again while having great value in the global marketplace while keeping to a life of civil plus legal activity even if in a confine through white terror. Clarke suggest it is self reliance but it is far more than that. It is self reliance in spite of the truth. Booker T Washington is saying the black people of Rosewood, Florida : business owners, landowners, financially successful have to individually or collectively, after whites murdered and burned rosewood away, to figure out a way :to not be surrounded and annihilated by whites absent most of their possession being destroyed or stolen by whites , finding a greater value to the global market place even though they have just had their financial balance or growth annihilated, stay as examples of the most legal of actors. It is more involved than self reliance. It is a zeal/unhealthy high mindedness about self reliance, that forgets to cognize human beings don't have to choose that path. Booker T Washington in his words was a statian , but more specifically a black southerner. He liked the south over the north. Zora Neale Hurston from Florida, always said her little town was happy and pleasant even while whites did all sorts of things . His call to be more of the land, more of craft is his strongest wisdom and least implemented by black people today, through the efforts of whites who madeblack people distrust the safety of black ownership in the usa. As a character said in the movie Posse from MArio van Peebels"I bought myself out of slavery, twice, this is it" The christian god didn't give whites the ability to get their foot off the neck of blacks in the south and all the warnings booker t washington posited came to be. CITATION https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/504-booker-t-washingtons-atlanta-exposition-speech-1895/

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