The Black Elite

[Exquisite5]

Originally posted by AKA_Monet


YAH KNOW!!!! I'm like DAYUM!!! These are the kids that are SUPPOSED to make it!!! Instead, it's the opposite!!! The kids I grew up with... Ghetto games 2000... Few, and I can count them on my fingers, are where we are s'pose to be at in our lives... The other ones--crack addicts, one killed himself, have 4 kids by different men before the age of 25, homeless, strugglin' with the drug crystal meth or ECSTASY... Arrested for raping somebody. Contracted HIV thru IV drug use... Gave it to 5 different partners... Just dumb stuff. It kinda hurts 'cuz the outta of the men, their ain't nobody to date. Then outta the women, the bruhs don't wanna date so they date other women with less problems. My friends and I are always discussing that constantly because now we're at the age group that are supposed to start taking leadership positions in the city... Oh well...

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.