Not if you've been part of the elite group long enough. Sometimes people who weren't born into it are the most defensive about outsiders.
The dynamics of black society is very difficult to understand. We are probably the only race that has prejudices against other members of our own race.
It's understandable why she feels that way. But surely Queen Elizabeth and the Sex Pistols were of the same race and still had prejudices against each other.
You can also find the same thing among Jews. Alan Dershowitz is a Harvard lawyer many times over, but some established Jewish families would tear their hair out if he moved in next door. At least it was that way before celebrity triumphed over old money.
Even before the Civil War, blacks in America were terribly stratified, in several different ways. And over time, it gets worse and worse.
The original distinction began almost at the moment of leaving Africa, since slaves were from almost exclusively northwestern tribes. So the first stratification was tribal. Then, slaves were divided into the more manageable slaves for America, and the troublesome slaves, who were sent, often to be worked to death, to French Haiti.
Prior to the invention of the cotton gin, slavery in America was solely in the domain of the upper classes. A young adult male slave would cost roughly $1M in today’s money. The majority of slaves were domestic servants, and often were intended for eventual emancipation.
This created a major subdivision among blacks. Slaves vs. Freemen. In some cities, such as New Orleans, a freed slave could be an entrepreneur, and there was a black district where they could own and operate businesses.
The next subdivision was among the various blends of black and white. Half black children were Mulatto, one quarter black children were Quadroon, and one eighth black children were Octoroon.
Free Quadroon women could become mistresses to white gentlemen, and as part of the deal live well in an apartment in the black district. Such partnerships were formed at the famous Quadroon ball, where Quadroon debutantes would meet wealthy young white men.
Any children from that pairing would become “bar sinister” members of the white man’s family, and were often sent North to become educated entrepreneurs, where being an Octoroon wouldn’t matter.
The divisions among blacks in America continued.
Ain’t no greens in Cape Cod.
I wonder if Paul Shanklin can work some Magic with this.
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The author is totally clueless. My mother has told me about being looked down on and called an "Okie".
Blacks have an “elite?”
Not long ago I was at a dinner with a group that included a Latina. When the subject of Obama's Supreme Court nominee came up, the first words out of her mouth, with a look of disdain, were, "She's a Puerto Rican!".
It isn’t where she was raised that got her that label, its the attitude of entitlement she carries with her that got her that label.
Not with the misuse of subject/verb agreement.
At least they didn't call her a “house negro” like Imawhackjob called The Chosen One.
What an insult to “ghetto” girls!
They no doubt are noticing the clothes that the ‘Fashion Queen’ wears & would rather be caught dead - rather than look like her.
Can’t wait for jessie jackas* and al to show up with their rent a mob people to protest to be followed by months of hearings by our elected thieves to denounce this entire injustice.
Oh wait, never mind the people who are involved are also black.
Tonya Lewis, your presence is requested at Fort Marcy Park.
Miss Lewis to the park, please.
Thank you.
Wow, the blacks calling the blacks, blacks. I’ve seen it all.
Very interesting and entaining.
Gotta respond to this author. She really is uninformed.
Anybody remember the movie “The Inkwell” ?