We see this silly argument made consistently by whites in this forum.
The race industry argument(paraphrased with additions)
The race industry argument says that racism is no longer a big deal, that it is being kept alive by those who make money out of it or win votes.
Here is Rush Limbaugh in 2009:
"The race industry is still around. One of my most fervent desires and wishes, I’m serious, as a human being, is that all of this racism just be over with, all this group victimization be over with, and I don’t get it, because it’s never going to end. These are tactics, these are political tactics employed by the left to secure power, and they’ll never give it up. And while they’re the ones out there practicing all this racism and groupthink and victimization, they’re blaming people like me for it. And it’s just a shame. It’s just a shame."
But Limbaugh didn't create it.
Here is the same arument made by a black idiot that some white racists even try using right now to deny the racism they practice daily.
Booker T. Washington(1911):
"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro 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 Negro to lose his grievances, because they do do not want to lose their jobs."
"In Booker T Washington’s day it was not the “race industry”, the profitable complainers, who hung black men from trees or kept black people at the back of the bus, who kept blacks from voting; they are not the ones who kept blacks out of libraries, cinemas, hotels, restaurants and amusement parks.
Likewise today it is not the complainers, the whiners, the race card pullers, who make innocent black children go to bad schools, who help to keep blacks out of white neighbourhoods, who hire them last and fire them first, who would rather spend money keeping black men in prison than in getting them off of drugs, etc."
That a black man could make the race industry argument at the height of Jim Crow shows two things:
A race industry does not prove that racism is just being kept alive by complainers, that if they shut up it would go away.
That some black people can argue that racism is no big deal even when it is.
"The main thing that both Booker T Washington and Rush Limbaugh left out is that they themselves made their living by defending an unjust society as just."
The race industry argument says that racism is no longer a big deal, that it is being kept alive by those who make money out of it or win votes. Here is Rush Limbaugh in 2009: The race industry is …
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Funny thing about Limbaugh is that he got rich race baiting whites and stirring up white resentment. He was the CEO of the race industry.
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