[dirtboy]

He said, the mentality of the Black community at large is if you out them in the same barrel and those few make it to the top and put their hands down to help the others, the others will stay and say, "hey, you're doing the White Man thing, you're making us look bad, wait until our long legged Mack Daddy shakes down Whitey first." That's the problem we face.

Other commentators see the problem as something even worse - 'crab bucket' syndrome - wherease if you have a bucket of crabs and one figures out how to climb out of the bucket, the others will pull it back in.

[Nowhere Man]

Other commentators see the problem as something even worse - 'crab bucket' syndrome - wherease if you have a bucket of crabs and one figures out how to climb out of the bucket, the others will pull it back in.

That's a very good analogy too. I'll have to remember that.