[cloud8]

> A conspiracy theorist might wonder if this is part of a plot to keep American blacks uneducated and unemployable...

Last summer I did a gig in Boston's Medical District, which is on the edge of the city's largest black neighborhood. What I saw was encouraging...many blacks who had found good jobs in the hospitals who had entered the middle class, or were on the verge of entering it, for whom ghetto life was several blocks away. And who could switch between standard English and black English as the situation warrented. The Priya Parmars of this world, who preach that overthrowing the culture of the white "oppressor" is the sole route to "empowerment," are only fooling themselves and their marxist colleagues.

[Tax-chick]

The Priya Parmars of this world, who preach that overthrowing the culture of the white "oppressor" is the sole route to "empowerment," are only fooling themselves and their marxist colleagues.

And the school administrators who will hire them, and the students they'll teach.

[lOKKI]

I'm always fascinated by this phenomenon.-

The underclasses (and their "advocates") embracing something that - were it forced on them by the upper classes - would be seen as a cruel yoke of oppression intended to keep them from ever interacting successfully with the upper classes. Some examples are too easy as targets:

All lower-class people are now required to wear baggy, ill-fitting clothing.

All lower-class males are now required to wear large necklaces.

All lower-class people are now required to speak eubonics.