but I >think that black folk who >get a chance to eat are able to sedate themselves with the spoils of middle >and upper middle class status. There's a 12 step program for that too, Brah! > >Sure, those material gains do not >allow them to escape their >skin, This is one of the 12 steps
but I think life is much less painful for >the ever-emerging middle class than >it is for the folks who swing from paycheck to >paycheck. Perhaps...but I know some real happy paycheck to paycheck people...meet one of them - me
>The black middle class suffers a >different kind of alienation, but >vehicles such as psychotherapy and >presciption drugs are becoming increasingly >available and acceptable as a >means of dealing with the >hassles of breathing while black. Breathing while Black - I Love it!!!! There may be a different kind of alienation but its roots are the same.
>On the contrary, the people >we currently call leaders continue >to feed us a message that we can achieve if >we dare to pursue the American Dream. So long as >that message resonates in even a small portion of Black America, the revolution will be >leaderless. So help me....are you saying that we'll be leaderless until our current regime stop telling us that we can acheive our "piece of the pie"?? I don't think I quite understand this. Help a sistah out.
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