Autobiography of Negro - what does he tell us?

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915)

This is simply a unique work, belonging to the elite group of respective twelve most crucial American books. The autobiography was written by the negro shown above, who was born a slave. African-Americans weren't in the United States at the time. They came from nowhere.

It is worth reading this autobiography, due to the fact that as a first-hand work, it allows for a glance at those times without the poisonous raids caused by present ideology and propaganda. In this way, we may look at past and present events differently. Of course, this work is not entirely objective, for being memories of a peculiar individual must be subjective. In particular, as a man of integrity and integrity Booker T. Washington saw integrity and integrity everywhere.

There is no reason not to read this book, as it is available in the public domain, not long and written in simple language without wrapping in cotton (!). The first can be read online or downloaded in various formats (pdf, epub, mobi) here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Up_From_Slavery

Also in Polish translation, the book is free and available in pdf, epub and mob formats. You can read the selected file on your computer, telephone or reader. Polish translation can be found here:

https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Autobiography_Murzyna

or online in the first robe for example here: https://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=89245

The translation was done by a well-known translator Maria Gąsiorowska in the early 20th century shortly after the first appeared, which is crucial due to the fact that it means that the text was not manipulated to guarantee compliance with the current ideology.

Born as a slave, Booker heard of a fresh school for the Blacks, and began to learn. His zeal, integrity and skill shortly made him entrusted with more crucial tasks and functions. He yet became the organizer and manager of the recently established school in Tuskegee, Alabama. I will not tell the book, just adding that the venture has been successful and the Institute is now known as University of Tuskegee.

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

From a short but crucial book, you can learn a lot about the times in which it was created, but besides about our modern times. Attention is drawn to the desire of many recently freed Negroes to learn, as Booker himself is an outstanding example. Without funds to cover the cost of education, the students paid them with their own work. School buildings were created thanks to the generosity of donors, most confederate citizens, and the work of students.

Booker Washington's enthusiastic approach was both reasonable and practical. In parallel with typical school education, he worked hard to master professions and skills that could sustain them and improve their quality of life. As a result, various courses were held, and in the vicinity of the school or within the framework of it, workshops and craft establishments were created, which shortly became celebrated for the quality of their services.

The communicative told by Booker shows how immense the contrast between the times and the present is. First, a crucial percent of recently liberated slaves sought to improve their destiny through education. The school in Tuskegee, Alabama and its many branches were incapable to accept all the volunteers. Moreover, frequently even those who were slaves, who for various reasons were incapable to go to school, supported those who wanted and could learn.

How different this is from the current situation erstwhile the learning black community members are ridiculed, intimidated, humiliated and attacked for their “unworthy black” behaviour. In turn, those who live in a little depressing environment, go to higher education and better work, believe that everything is due to their origin and color, without effort and having to work their own way. This is not only in the US, but besides in another countries, for example in the UK.

There are various reasons for this, but state-owned actions have made a large contribution, both the unfortunately formulated social aid programs perpetuating the remaining social pits and the various forms of promoting blacks for skin colour alternatively than for achievements, i.e. Affirmative Action and DEI.

Because of the discrimination that took place 100 and 200 years ago, the demands on students, students, mechanics, engineers, pilots, doctors are now underrated... What's worse, they think they deserve it, and trying to treat them equally with others is racism. A fresh series of dozens of failures and accidents involving Boeing machines is an excellent example of the impact of specified a policy. Recently, in the U.S. after the presidential election, the force of the national government has decreased many corporations and universities retreat from the deadly DEI policy, but evil has happened.

The subject is besides extended to even briefly discuss it here, so just a reminder that a fewer decades ago, before all these ideas brought fruit, there were much little broken families and crime in black communities, while a much larger percent of their members besides graduated from mediocre families and gained highly qualified professions. This was the case despite the repentant racial segregation relics in many places.

An excellent example is Thomas Sowellwho witness with his life, work and many books. According to Polish Wikipedia:

Thomas Sowell was born [in 1930] in North Carolina, where, as mentioned in his biography Personal Odyssey, his contact with white people was so limited that he did not believe that the "yellow" colour was possible hair colour for man. He and his siblings moved to Harlem, fresh York, under the care of his mother's sister (he believed she was his mother, and his father died before his birth). At the age of 17, due to household financial problems and deteriorating standard of surviving at home, he abandoned advanced school and began his own life. He later served in the U.S. Navy.

After leaving the army, Sowell found a occupation in Washington and, despite failing to postgraduate from advanced school, undertook evening studies for Howard University. Excellent exam results College Board and opinions from 2 professors at Howard University enabled him to join Harvard University, who graduated with discrimination in 1958 magna cum laude, obtaining the Bachelor of Arts in Economics title

I leave out a follow-up describing Thomas Sowell's long and rich academic career, but his résumé and achievements are worth getting to know more. For this intent it is better to usage the English version of Wikipedia website, which is much richer. If necessary, many browsers offer the anticipation of translating into Polish.

Several of his economical books have been translated into Polish, but unfortunately there are no studies of social topics among them. In particular, those dealing with alleged social justice, the powers of today's Negroes to compensate for the harm suffered by their great-grandparents, and the meaning and effectiveness of various actions of the kind Afirmative Action. This is simply a strong voice for common sense that is worth hearing.

Another comparison with the negative consequence for the present time. Schools and boarding schools in Tuskegee built students on a part of land purchased with donor money. They then expanded it, including production facilities where they learned the profession and worked for the school.

Think of today’s bureaucratic times. Currently, no specified action would be possible. No handicapped group could have made it to independence. The terrible number of regulations and restrictions and the essential permissions and permissions in all area would become an insurmountable barrier, even without the sick will of power.

It is bad in the US, but much worse in EU countries. We live in a time erstwhile we request approval and certification for everything, and europaci They come up with fresh restrictions, bans and warrants. Now even on his own land, the mediocre man has no right to put his own hands on the poor-house, the 1 he can afford and live his own life. It's better for the power to keep the homeless at her mercy. If he opposes, a 1000 fines and prohibitions from which he will no longer be released for his poorness and thirst for freedom.

Even the local authorities of towns or agrarian municipalities, alternatively of serving residents and gathering their needs, are paired with social engineering and carry out the mission of "save the planet" at the expense of the lives of those residents they consider to be their subordinates alternatively than employers.

And 1 more small flattering comparison for Poland this time. No 1 remembers what old Poland looked like and how the vast majority of its inhabitants lived. fewer people want to remember. I have frequently heard complainers about the apartments built by the “comune” in the blocks, but praisers, what wonderful apartments they were before the war. They don't think what percent lived in these fewer magnificent apartments from the front of the building, and where and how did the remaining 95% of the city dwell?

However, the vast majority of them erstwhile lived in agrarian areas, and it seems to everyone that they lived in manor houses. At least, that's what they say, due to the fact that now there are no descendants of peasants. In the meantime, it is worth reminding that the civilian War is 1863, that is, in Poland the year of the January Uprising. This led to the abolition of slavery, while in part of the Polish lands the consequence of the uprising was the abolition of the serfdom.

Only that unlike the US, this effect was completely unintentional by those going to the uprising in Poland. The abolition of the serfdom took place after the fall of the Uprising in 1864 against Polish masters, as a punishment imposed by the possessor. Before that, most of the population in the Kingdom of Poland were slaves, or serfs, peasants deprived of all rights and surviving in unimaginable misery. They were owned by a gentleman who could have killed them if he liked them so much. And you had no intention of giving up that power. besides the Glorified Constitution of 3rd May 1791, did not introduce any specifics another than the wilderness for the care of peasants.

For centuries in Poland, according to various data depending on the historical period, even 80% of Poles could be Polish slaves. So the overwhelming majority of Poles were de facto Slaves, which nobody wants to remember anymore. In 1863 the Polish peasants constituted 75% of the population in industrialized for those times of the Kingdom. In another occupations, slave interest was similar, and so did the women bear the possessors in opposition to the Polish masters. It happened there a small earlier, in the Austrian partition in 1848, and in the Prussian partition in 1808-1850.

It is worth knowing by comparison that in the United States in 1865, erstwhile the abolitionist XIII amendment to the Constitution was accepted, black slaves accounted for about 32% of the population. Thus, in the USA 1/3, and in Poland more than 3/4 inhabitants were slaves. Let us remember that we have the right perspective.

In the light of the above, we should ask about the meaning of compensation for the past. Behind the ocean, the Blacks request compensation for the harm of 160 years ago, and in Poland, the erstwhile slaves are to sit quietly erstwhile the fresh power corrects the harm suffered during the "comune" times by erstwhile slave owners. Both make no sense anymore. The only thing that should substance is what everyone achieves through their own merits.

One more comparison. The Tuskegee Institute of erstwhile slaves taught not only school subjects and crafts. Classes besides included hygiene, housekeeping, and appropriate nutrition. Booker Washington suffered greatly over the monotonous and in his opinion the incorrect diet, to which the mediocre Negroes got utilized in the days of slavery. This inappropriate diet of mediocre people consisted mainly of Beans and pork.

Meanwhile, peasants in Poland starved, feeding on the herb alone for a part of the year, and the meat only ate erstwhile they managed to get them by any "way" by stealing, poaching or hunting gawrons called Mazowiecki chickens. Even many years later, in free Poland was said, that a farmer eats a chicken only in 2 cases: erstwhile he is sick, or erstwhile she is sick. I remember that this saying was known inactive around 1960.

And we should remember this by discussing slavery, or by equalizing past wrongs.

A: The Republican organization  is racist
B: The Republican organization  was founded in 1854 to abolish slavery
B: The Democratic organization  founded the Ku Klux Clan and introduced Jim Crow's rights racial segregation.
B: Democrats have opposed integration and civilian  rights for 100 years.
B: Traditionally and historically, Democrats prosper, benefiting from racism.
A: YOU are the racist.