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Originally posted by Exquisite5
Really, this is all kind of interesting to me to hear this. Everyone I've grown up with in Jack and Jill and Top Teens, supposedly part of the Houston black "elite" is doing fine. They are either in law, medical or dental school and if not, they are working. My friend, a member of very prominent family- her mom is a U.S. Congresswoman- is actually giving back and doing Teach For America.
I think some of EVERY class makes bad decisions. I do not feel that stupidity is any more prevelent among the black bourgoisie (sp?).
Additionally, all my life I've been teased because of where I live, how I speak, what car my parents drive, etc... As if, I chose the family I was born into and that for some reason my black card should be revoked. I'm proud that my grandfather started/owned the first black foundry in the state of TX and I don't think that makes me better- its just a part of my family's and TX history. That is just the legacy my grandfather left my father and the rest of us to carry on. Let's not down people for being born into wealth--- lets just all try and build the black economic market. We definitely could use a few more black owned businesses.
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uummh? Exquisite5 pm me if I'm wrong but I really don't see in this thread where anyone down someone for being of wealth or in a "higher social class".
What is primarily being expressed is that whatever social class you are from it doesn't make you officially better than the other people no matter what group you join. That is the prior points that have been made........noone is downing anyone because of the class they are/were born into.
