[lbo-talk] black class gap

[John Thornton]

It's funny to watch these white commentators suddenly see what 
minorities have always known. That within every minority community there 
is class stratification.
You can't fool white people forever so they were bound to figure this 
out eventually.
I'd like to think this will make class struggles more difficult to hide 
but I believe class ties are stronger than racial ties so probably not.

John Thornton

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.
>
> Almost no one's shocked when, say, a middle class, suburban white 
> guy frets about the purported threat a declasse neighbor poses to 
> his property value.
>
> But if that disconcerted householder is black, and if the outcast 
> neighbor is also black we're especially disappointed as if an 
> eldritch bond has been rudely broken.
>
>
> .d.