he was projecting. Frank always been self conscious and insecure about not being respected or seen as “someone”, just cuz that drove him to make money by any means doesn’t mean everyone else needed that validation. Jerome was fine being the unc that stepped up, selling his weed, lifting his weights, bumpin his music and being a man that lived by and had a code. Frank’s insecure ass is the one who assumed everyone needed to be breaded up to feel good about themselves, and he drug everyone down to the worst versions of themselves, including what Louie is today while also not letting people like leon get out when they had enough. nah breh, just cuz your mom spent years being shyt on by her white boss and you couldn’t cut it with the white folk at college doesn’t mean everyone else had that need to be validated chip on their shoulder.
edit: I don’t know how people can look back over this series and keep bigging up frank, only thing he had was a relentless drive for money, otherwise ari gave him his first break, Jerome gave him the game, louie gave him his first connect and bailed him out during his series of bad choices in season 4, leon gave him the muscle, and RZA gave him the recipe.