i'll agree to that...OK, so we have a disagreement in defintions then. Fair enough. When I grew up, auto mechanics, welders, carpenters, factory workers, and clerks were all middle class persons. May be lower middle class, but middle class nonetheless.
May original post was to point out that comments on this thread which seemed paint ALL or TOO MANY african americans in this nation with a broad brush of government dependency and aberrant behavior are not completely accurate.
i'll agree to that...