You’d be surprised - or maybe not - by how many of the black radical crowd and even rap stars who make their living on a image of being hood rats are from upper middle class backgrounds, or have gone through the best public or private schools in their areas, or even how many of them (like Obama) have a white parent.
A lot of it is an image thing. I think black intellectuals should look long and hard at a culture that exalts the angry, violent thug and his lower class behavior and tastes to such an extent that blacks who aren’t from that background have to pretend that they are just to be able to consider themselves “truly black.” Very bizarre.
I do think some of it, too, is fostered by the white entertainment industry, which promotes this image.
Wright and his ilk can sell hatred and then go back to their tony neighborhood, and let the poor and ignorant suffer the consequences. I don't believe that Obama truly believes that AIDS was created by the government. It is his uneducated fellow churchgoer who dies of a disease that could be treated sooner if they had gone to the doctor who suffers, having been fed the idea that doctors can't be trusted.
Same with those promoting other radical causes around the world. (Ahem.)
Rev.Wright actually looks white to me, as well. Since we are judging people on the basis of the color of their skin, you know.