Hes a Fool

Booker T. Washington


In the book Mama Calls Booker T. Washington as a "fool". Ms. Johnson quoted "education has spoiled many a good plow hands." Meaning that education has made them fools because education is now and plowing is then, everyone wants now more then.

I think Mama calls those people fools because she probably thinks that Black people don't have much hope and they wouldn't need much help to try and get some. Pushing my thinking further I also think that Mama might say this because she thinks that Booker T. Washington and George Murchison are fools like people who tried to succeed, the both failed and the gave up on people like them then.

George Murchison and Booker T. Washington are both the same in ways because they went against some people, ( in Gorges case, Beneatha) they also wanted to change some peoples lives to their taste like on page 96 and 97 where Gorge and Beneatha fight, sort of. Gorge wants education to get a job and then get money, so then he will feel that he'll be accepted by the white people because of his money (same happend with booket T. Wasington. He said, "do what you can and fit in." However, Beneatha wants education to find her identity and to acomplish self forfillment.