Booker T and Not Taking Slavery Personal

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Booker T didn't take Slavery personally at all like literally like zero zero which that's how you would act. It reminds me of a memory had Jim Sursley on the podcast and he was in Vietnam volunteered volunteered for the army ended up losing both legs and one arm, Came back from Vietnam spent nine months in the hospital and learning how to adapt to his new life. Instead of sitting there saying what was me move forward and it seems like that's what Booker T Washington's doing to I'm gonna move forward here. I am The past is past I'm gonna make the best of everything that I can starting right now.

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915)^[1] was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary black elite.^[2] Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.