Why is Booker T. Washington dissed by blacks?

Question

Everything I read about Booker T. is laudatory. Hard work, self reliance, education, personal responsibility were his traits and yet I don't hear blacks invoking his memory or contributions. Why?

Answer 1

Yep. He's the quintessential Brown Noser.

Answer 2

He's not recent enough in history, so is too often forgotten by Americans of all colors.  As for black people "dissing" him, I've yet to witness it.  Personally, I believe that Booker T. Washington was a great role model for all of his fellow Americans, due to the qualities you described in your question.

Answer 3

Booker T. supported Vocational Education.  He believed that blacks should gradually engage themselves into the white community by starting with basic skills and bettering themselves. The schools he supported were also favored by whites, who saw vo tech as way to keep blacks down, not a starting point for advancement. His ideological rival on the issue was W.E. Dubois, who believed in giving blacks the same type of education as whites.

Answer 4

Ignorance of their own history.

Answer 5

He urged blacks to not directly challenge white racism. His "talented tenth" concept implicitly condemned 90% of blacks to poverty and servitude, just as long the other 10 % made it.

Which is why right-wingers profess to worship "personal responsibility".

Answer 6

cause they think of him as an "uncle tom".