Also you got some damn nerve. 10 million "black" immigrants are not doing better than 40 million Black Americans. We don't live on top of each otherImmigrant black people seem to be doing better. Their kids get better grades, and there is an emphasis on hard work, and education.
The Black community is gonna have to put up class barriers if its going to survive in the future.
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Then we need sub-classes to further isolate the the cancers of our communities…we already have class barriers.how many black millionaires you friends with?
To be fair, I don't think Dubois was saying that we need hierarchies to create divisions within the black community.
What he was saying was that we need to raise up the talented among us to serve as models for our community to aspire towards.
Ebony, Jet, and Black Enterprise magazines were great mediums for this because they promoted and uplifted talented individuals excelling in their respective fields and brought the knowledge of who they were, what they were doing, and how they got to where they were at to large swaths of our community who would have been none the wiser. They became the faces of the black community and we judged our blackness by those standards.
With the demise of some of these magazines it left a vacuum.
That's when we started to get the Media Takeouts, WSHH, Shaderooms, etc.. filling the void but instead of promoting our best, went the opposite route of promoting the lowest and mediocre among us.
Hence, why we're in the situation we're in today where the young folks have nothing but degenerates to aspire towards.
The black judge and doctor should be living and socializing in the same communities as the black laborer and tradesman. There should be no social separation at all. It is best for black people overall to have socio-economically mixed communities and social spaces.
It's only when certain elements in our community becomes destructive when social barriers and divisions should be put in place.
Unfortunately, we've been high past that point.
And just so I'm clear, there should not be class divisions. However, the line should be drawn against destruction and degeneracy.
"Do not mix n mingle with dutty bundle"
Do not mix clean clothes with dirty clothes.
Same applies.
Do not mix clean clothes with dirty clothes.
Same applies.
Immigrants don't work fast food? What are you even trying to say, Jose?
Is this why black folks in Jamaica bow to Chinese and Indians? Amazing
If Black Americans don't value education why do HBCUs exist? In contrast, why is the country your people fled a shythole if they value education?
Im not not near Miami nor am I a Zoe so I can’t speak on it. But I can definitely speak on what I’ve seen and been around for 37 years, living in 6 states and 8 different cities.
I literally just told you I can’t speak on that. Any and everybody I know in real life that values education made something out of themselves so I’m not sure what your argument is when I said I can’t speak on them
Field Marshall Bradley
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I believe he was wrong too.