"In fact, the phrase "The New Negro", for whose coinage the Rhodes scholar Dr. Alain Locke is credited, was used at least as early as 1895. the Cleveland Gazette on 28 June 1895 commented on the success of securing a New York Civil Rights Law i an editorial about a class of colored people the "new Negro", who have arisen since the war, with education, refinement and money. Afew months later J.W.E. Bowen spoke of the New Negro who waited patiently for white Americans to be conquered by their love of fair play and would make a great destiny for himself out of the consciousness of a racial personality"
MY TAKE: this section goes on to speak of Booker T. Washington and his drive towards economic success being the vehicle for liberation for black people...one which never worked, which raises the question of whether the neo-Negros who say economics is the way know their history and what they plan to do differently?