I agree with you Staight BOS, we must empower ourselves....I think in the Black community we equate fame with Blacks with "pull" for years this has always been the analogy...Most of us with pull usually are famous i.e. Oprah, Bill Cosby,etc. But my biggest beef is with SOME of us who play the H.P.I.C. role (head person in charge)...Ya know, I can think of a heckuva lot more people other than Blacks whom I work with that have that same mentality