Booker T. Washington monetized his own demeaning of Black people for funding.

Evidence

On his fund-raising travels, Washington had a knack for putting White audiences at ease by sharing his famously funny (or infamously offensive) southern “darky” jokes. Washington gave wealthy Whites what they wanted—a one-man minstrel show—and they gave him what he wanted—a check for Tuskegee. Washington somehow demeaned Black people as stupid for an hour and then received donations to educate those same stupid people. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 747

Categorization

• BMF: The self-humiliating performance to extract resources from a dominant patron echoes the dynamic in Naqvi’s Home Boy, where characters perform prescribed immigrant/terrorist identities to gain acceptance and advancement from the establishment that demeans them.
• SHARE: A precise, grotesque detail worth sending to a friend who studies Black intellectual history or the economics of philanthropy.