I found the part on middleclassness to be the most disturbing part of the Black Value System. It assumes a conspiratorial white society that is trying to manipulate blacks by selecting a few “Uncle Toms” to sway opinion and attitudes to keep the rest of blacks down. It is insane, yet it forms the philosophical basis of the church. This is where the attention needs to be focussed, i.e., more on the church itself than on what a particular pastor says or if Obama was in attendance for a particular sermon.
Exactly! The more I learn about this- the more I wonder how could I be part of an idealogical community for 20 years and NOT soak up and internalize the ideaology?
A small slip- but a telling one happened when Obama said yesterday about his grandmother “typical white person”...
I’m not going to read that garbage, but..
does it really infer that the black middle class is just a bunch of “uncle toms” because they succeeded in “white” [American] culture?