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4. "The Black Middle Class"
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The black middle class is a buffer group. I know cause I grew up on the fault line between the black underclass and the black middle class. Don't just look at PG County Maryland -- check out the Chicago 'burbs. Middle class black people often see poor blacks as the problem just like whites. Black people don't like crime, either; and they are just as programmed to view us in the ghetto as criminals, drug addicts, and welfare queens as white people. They believe in the empty American dream and will conform to get it. Don't be fooled by their "Afrocentricity"; progressive black politics threatens the status quo, and believe me, the black middle class has an investment in the status quo, or believes it does. However, the burgeoning intellectuals that grew up along the fault line like myself (or were brought face-to-face with the contradictions of their class) are trying to set the agenda for us in the new century. Hip-hop intellectualism alone won't save us w/o recourse to Delaney, Cruse, Woodson, and all the people young black people in college are being exposed to. Not everyone is getting their minds blown...most are just in college so they can get that paper or some symbolic power...but the mental liberation afforded by the gains of the black middle-class is affording the incubation of proto-revolutionary thought.
So, the black middle class itself is useless, but is necessary as an incubator for the next niggaz who may bring the pain to this distressed system we live in.


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THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS [View all] , rhulah, Sat Jul-21-01 02:19 PM
 
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RE: THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS
Jul 21st 2001
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RE: THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS
Jul 21st 2001
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Yeah me too
Jul 21st 2001
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           RE: The Black Middle Class
Jul 21st 2001
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           RE: The Black Middle Class
Jul 21st 2001
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                The Black Middle Class?
Jul 21st 2001
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                RE: When did you go to Greece Mr. '06
Jul 21st 2001
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           RE: The Black Middle Class
Jul 21st 2001
10
           RE: The Black Middle Class
Jul 22nd 2001
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           RE: The Black Middle Class
Jul 22nd 2001
11
Illusion?
Jul 21st 2001
6
RE: Illusion?
Jul 22nd 2001
12
black people should stay poor forever
Jul 22nd 2001
14
RE: black people should stay poor forever
Jul 22nd 2001
15
      you need to read your own posts
Jul 22nd 2001
17
      Aren't you claiming to not be part of the BMC?
Jul 23rd 2001
19
RE: THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS
Jul 22nd 2001
16
RE: THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS
liviti
Jul 23rd 2001
18
I am Heated
Jul 23rd 2001
20
RE: THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS
Jul 23rd 2001
21
Again, it's an illusion
Jul 23rd 2001
22
What are you talking about?
Jul 23rd 2001
23
RE: Again, it's an illusion
Jul 23rd 2001
25
Personal Experience
freethought
Jul 23rd 2001
24
This is entirely BS
Jul 23rd 2001
26

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