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( 105 ) Of a Booker T. Ditty, & an Imagined Want Ad 8 He is the head, he is the leader, Booker T. Washington is his name. Oh, he is the head, the leader, Booker T. Washington is his name, Yes it is. He stands for us, he speaks for us, No-body else can make that claim. (Repeat above.)  WANT AD  Wanted: New Leader for the Negro People. duties: 1. Explore & implement strategies to stop the gradual erosion of the rights of the Colored in continuing decline since Reconstruction . 2. Counter-act the accommodation to the betrayal of our hope from without & within. 3. Plot the path to economic & social rights, i.e., 1st class citizenship. Qualifications: To graduate from studying Negroes to prove (to those who don’t care) they can be more than sweat & strain Negroes, to leading them. Willing to go through a series of wrenching revelations about 01 Harris text.indd 105 12/13/11 11:25 AM ( 106 ) ever-increasing radical possibilities. 5–8 Year strategY: Scale down from the tower; organize a trip to the scenic North, co-found a politically active group. Demand attention from business, scholars, churches, society, & history. Specific duties: Be Queequeg. Harpoon the ghosty Tuskegee leviathan, bulling its space-displacing bulk & spouting bilge through its blowhole. Be the author of Souls of Black-folk. No others need apply. Contact, William monroe trotter, Co-founder Boston Guardian 01 Harris text.indd 106 12/13/11 11:25 AM ...

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