My Larger Education—中写到
There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the 黑奴race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs—partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the 黑奴 to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
布克·华盛顿在历史上是一位主张“脚踏实地、通过经济独立和工业教育来提升黑人地位”的务实派。他非常反对那些只靠贩卖社会矛盾、激化族群情绪来赚取政治资本和捐款的阶层。这句一百多年前的话，在现代的政治和经济讨论中也经常被引用，用来指代那些通过“炒作族群对立或贩卖焦虑”来实现商业利益或政治权力变现的机构与个人。
