Yesterday (June 4th) marked the birthday of S.B. Fuller. Does this name ring a bell? If not, don’t worry.
Fuller was one of the most successful black entrepreneurs of his time yet the socialist kool-aid drinkers have gone to considerable lengths to destroy his reputation because of his staunch Republican and free-market beliefs.
You see, Fuller was all about business and self-reliance, not racial quotas, affirmative action stances, anti-discrimination laws, etc…
His philosophy about how to end segregation in the South was through black achievement, not government intervention. Obviously not the most popular of opinions.
His comment at his induction ceremony that “a lack of understanding of the capitalist system and not racial barriers was keeping blacks from making progress” combined with an interview in U.S. News and World Report where he stated that “Negroes are not discriminated against because of the color of their skin. They are discriminated against because they have not anything to offer that people want to buy” caused some black leaders to call for a boycott of Fuller products. The boycotts were largely unsuccessful, but his reputation was quite tarnished in the black community.
Fuller’s story is fascinating to me and I believe you will find it as such too. Give it a read.
Good story about a GREAT man!!!
ISN’T THE FACT THAT THIS DUDE IS ONLY AN OREO TO THE LEFT AND THEREFORE NOT A “TRUE BLACK” RACIST??
He’s an Uncle Tom, right?
Malignant worms.
The Fuller brush Co? I skimmed through it but didn’t noticed that. If so they were everywhere in the 50’s-60’s Door to door sales.
He was an example that should be pointed to that efforts bring success. But of course he was smeared for not towing the line. A shame.
gin blossom, no, that was another Fuller, Alfred Fuller.
I put myself through my first year of college selling Fuller Brush stuff door to door when I was 17. I was told that I had an honest face so it was pretty easy work.
Same with Booker T Washington. His ‘Up From Slavery’ is a fantastic testimony to a strong work ethic. Because he focused on developing relationships between the races and not on victim mentality people like W.E.B. Dubois painted him as an ‘Uncle Tom’ as well.
I’ve owned a few of his fine shaving brushes.
Don’t rock the boat.
Don’t de-rail the gravy train.
It’s not a racial problem, it’s a cultural problem!
@ Left Coast Dan – Thank you. To add:
“Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.” BTW Malcolm X said the same thing…in the late 50’s.
“I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.”
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
– Frederick Douglass
H/T
https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/frederick_douglass
Just about all forgotten, like MLK message, ‘One day…’
Thanks to the continued Democratic Party of Slave Plantation mentality.
There is nothing in today’s America that is closed off to black people.
Well, KKK meetings, sure. But 99.99% of white people wouldn’t go to them either.