On Mr. Booker T. Washington's Trickery

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Georgia meant to attain at least
three goals. The first was of course the most clear-cut, that of winning
white advocates that would sponsor his cause (albeit by the use of
trickery). The second was that behind the purpose of the trickery itself,
advancing his fellow brothers. Trying to bypass whites' mindset and
actually making whites help the black cause. And the third and last but
not least important was that of delivering a moral speech on dignity and
pride for both blacks and whites. All these three goals show Booker T.
Washington's aims, by means of trickery. These ideas will be more fully
exposed and dealt with in the coming sections of this paper.

Washington understood the white mind

The most clear-cut goal of Washington's address was that of winning
definite support of whites towards his cause. Washington not only
understood the white men's mindset, but also his history, how they
interacted between them and what sort of things move them. Humans, Sigmund
Freud ...

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do, relinquish their
rights. Washington made them feel superior and that they have won. Of
course this hurt the black people, but what was pride after all if at the
end Washington would get them some benefits. Now, when Washington
prioritized things he realized how history works how civilizations come to
be.

Advancing his fellow brothers

A human develops in steps. A baby first crawls, then jerkily walks,
masters it and finally runs. It is highly unlikely if not impossible to
see a baby run right after it came out the womb. Along the same lines, a
civilization, a race, a culture, must go through certain steps in its
development in order that in each step it fulfills it to ...

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