I haven't read the whole thread but I will say this, in China at least and in Korea you have the Uber rich and you have peasants. They come to America to get rich and take care of each other. The people that live across the street from me live 9 deep in a 5 bedroom house and own a restaurant, a cleaners, and a nail shop. The US damn near begs them to come here and gives them money to do so. We don't have that privilege, banks will lend to them, universities actively seeking them out and because of that, they already have several legs up on us here. It's a known fact that anything we as black people get has to be grown from the root. You have no idea how many people I have met and gone to school with say I'm the first in my family to finish college, that's because the education system sucks for blacks and the economic system sucks for us also. Not to contradict myself but we do have lots of opportunities here but the civil rights struggle wasn't that long ago. Hell, in my father's lifetime he couldn't even go to a white school so he went to a hbcu and if it wasn't for a scholarship he wouldn't have been able to because his dad was a coal miner and couldn't afford it. My mom as well, here father was a steel worker. There were no white collar jobs for blacks back then. Now we have a generation of white collar blacks that can send their kids to school but there's still a big divide in terms of education. Simply put, Asians value education and teach things like economics and so forth. We still have to work twice as hard just to have the same opportunities as whites here and have to work even harder to get anywhere. Basically we have to take it upon ourselves to educate our own and lay a foundation that the next generation can build upon. Believe it or not, it's happening but it's going to take time. Our mindset is either flaunt what little we have or show whites that we're not all bad and a few that want to leave a legacy. We need everyone to get to the point where we want to leave a legacy and then our race will prosper more. That legacy has to start from the home and in our schools. Teach them while their young, hold trifling parents responsible and let's do like the billionaire said. Take what they did, learn from it and perfect it, they gave us the blueprint, make sure we're ok first, build our own shyt and we can't afford to break bread until we're all seated at the same table.