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Originally posted by SummerChild
Encouraging middle class Black people to go back into our communities and spend some time volunteering and working with those who have not "made it." According to Henry Louis Gates, who just published a new book on this subject by the way, we now have *two* nations in Black America - the middle class and the lower-class. We have got to begin to think of our race collectively once again. Instead of each person who has "arrived" turning his back and pretending that the ills that are in our community do not exist.
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Encouraging is a good idea, but again, the individual has to want to give back. I know that many are wary of it, unfortunately.
I'm not sure if we can start thinking collectively once again, particularly now that many of us are fairly comfortable.