Each act of participation in the discussion of social issues has rhetorical potential. Consequently, representatives of oppressed minority groups must decide whether and how to participate in such discussion without inadvertantly supporting their oppressors. Silence is sometimes preferable to participation—when it avoids confirming the efforts of those who seek social control. Such was the circumstance in 1895: a time for silence.
A time for silence: Booker T. Washington in Atlanta
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