Slow your horses...Booker T. idealism is not flawed, it was just poorly implented. Look at his protege' G.W. Carver. He was a brilliant scientist and inventor, but his need for assimulation into western culture acceptance led him practically give his ideas and methods (especially peanuts, and other agricultural innovations) to his oppressors for free. They then took his innovations and capitalized on it. Had he kept his ideas to himself and his people, who knows what type of economic stance he could placed both he and his people. We are too busy looking for acceptance by our oppressors that we fail to uplift and capitalize on our own creations. This the W.E.B. Dubois school of thought...who I think was gravely mistaken in his ideology. It is what I call the black-music effect. Look at every single form of music we have ever created in this country and then look at who became wealthy on it and why. The only slight exception may be present day hip-hop (so pay hommage to Russell, Puffy, and Suge). Just imagine if we had fully implented on the plans of Booker T., Garvey, Malcolm, and Kwame Nkrumah instead of W.E.B. and Martin. Now couple that with fact that perhaps fifty years ago the Jews and the Japanese were just as economically unempowered as we were. Now look at them...