On Nov 14, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> Perhaps I'm a bad hombre, or some sort of 'traitor' (i.e.,
> insufficiently fired up by an alleged spirit of brotherhood) but
> I must admit to being puzzled by hand wringing over this "class
> gap".
>
> Division, based upon real or imagined differences, within and
> between groups is at least as old as civilization, yes?
>
> We can be disturbed, but we shouldn't be surprised when African
> Americans behave like other human beings by creating hierarchies.
It's not news to you, or me, but it is to a lot of white people, and the subset of black people who are nationalists of the WBAI sort (or, what Adolph Reed recently called subscribers to the shopkeeper school of race patriotism).
Doug