Yes, I too read the book, and while informative, the mentalities represented in many parts of the book were distressing. Before I used to think of the Black Elite as the "talented tenth", that group of people destined to help uplift the race...
But it seems that as Blacks have been able to enter the middle/upper class arenas, we have become seduced by new wealth, and have forgotten that it was those same concepts that we now subscribe to (capitalism, or the "I'm out for mine" syndrome) that enslaved us in the first place. I admit that I struggle with this because I too want to be successful...and I don't think there is anything wrong w/ that. I think the problem comes when we are so happy and complacent w/ our own success, that the suffering of our brothers and sisters no longer affects us.
Then there are those of us who no longer feel any sense of responsability for our people...but like you said, another post, another topic!
Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of God
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