not just about black people (which they definitely do) but about other white people. Black people aren't the only ones peddling self-help to their own people.

I would also say audience is also as important as who the speaker is.

If you go into any success academy type charter school the schools are constantly drilling into the kids that they can do anything and don't let their environment hold them down. It would also seem that those schools always hold their children to a higher standard. But this is cool because they are speaking this stuff directly to the kids.


At the same time if Newt Gingrinch wants to spout this stuff at the Heritage Foundation retreat it's bullshit.

Also Common talking that talk is a bad look on Daily Show. But a black preacher in a black church wouldn't catch no slack for the same message.



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