[Carry_Okie]

This would not be the first time that a movement begun in profound moral clarity, and that achieved greatness, waned away into a parody of itself—not because it was wrong but because it was successful....

The movement was successful, but then its people were co-opted into a life of compensatory indolence. With all the tools of success arrayed before them, much of black America and particularly its urban cohort, chose the path of indentured constituency, and thence to failure as a people.

[spankalib]

“The movement was successful, but then its people were co-opted into a life of compensatory indolence. With all the tools of success arrayed before them, much of black America and particularly its urban cohort, chose the path of indentured constituency, and thence to failure as a people.”

Eloquent writing.
A two-sentence diagnosis of decades-old dysfunction.
WELL SAID!