Re: Politicians' intolerance help fuel climate of hate against gays and lesbians

Do you have the CONTEXT of these purported statements?

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--MJ

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they areable 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 Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. -- Booker T. Washington

By Alan Gomez, USA TODAY
New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino drew rebukes Monday for comments he made over the weekend, saying children shouldn't be "brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality" is acceptable. He said activities at gay pride parades are "disgusting."

"That's not how God created us," Paladino told a group of Orthodox Jewish leaders Sunday, "and that's not the example that we should be showing our children."