I have many qualms with certain cultural adoptions, practices, and promotions, but what has the bourgeoise Black class contributed to the culture over the last 200 years? I can tell you what they haven't. They do nothing but mimic white culture. They largely comprised my professional network, and sometimes, I want to cut their balls right the fuck off.
Everything positively (sometimes negatively) celebrated or associated with the Black culture was birthed from those who had created and innovated from poor economic means into globally embraced and admired contributions.
They havent done shit for the people with the opportunities they had, which is why the lower class has only grown.
Lets be honest if we can. Folks were crying when republicans finally killed affirmative action, but outside of a few dudes getting jobs, what did it do for the community at large?
Most of the people who got jobs moved far away from the rest of black folks, and in most case went about their work in making sure their kids didnt look like them or the community they escaped.
You see the same thing when Africans(and Arabs, keep it a buck) go into Africa and the Caribbean. The elite in those places live in their gated communities, embrace corruption, and never try to make it better for folks that look like them. When Asians come, build things they dont want them a part of, then their feelings get hurt.
If I can see the same thing in Harlem, in Kingston, in Nairobi, and in Addis Ababa(capital of a nation "
Never colonized") what is the logical conclusion? If you are able to sit back, with a straight face, and say the black underclass is the only underclass that represents the group as a whole, then what can we say of the group?
You answer that and your feelings will be hurt, but you'll see reality.
