I went ahead and googled 'Booket T black savages' and I was able to find his book, which I'd never read before 'The
Negro in the South: His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development'. Booker T expresses some really confusing ideas. So ultimately I can't rock with him.
I wonder what his views would be had he actually been to Africa. As I'm reading it right now, he sounds like a victim of his miseducation; concluding that since his people are enslaved then the things these white people say must simply be true.
His perception of the interactions between the whites and blacks is starkly different with the account of someone like Chinua Achebe and other African literaries.
What makes Carson similar to Booker T in the regard which we are discussing?
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