Ideal,
I have read the book and I felt that in a lot of ways it was very acurate. I attended a an HBCU with a reputation of snobbiness. There was a large number of students who had parents that belonged to Links and were Jack and Jill members. I was not even close to living that type of life when I was growing up. Consequently, I often felt out of place at school. Some of these people were just like anyone else while some of them were very uppity. Often times people just assumed because I attended that school that I too had that mentality. However, just as stated before, Blacks often times fall into the materialistic, classist devisive mentality that whites have. I think Mr. Graham was merely giving us a chance to see a segment of our community that is often off limits to the average African American.
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