This is an excellent topic. I have to applaud those who made the connection that drug dealers are selling out our communities. Along the same lines, I would define a sell-out (in the broad sense) as someone who is not living up to their potential, whether it be by engaging in illegal stuff like being a drug dealer, or just being a plain, ordinary slacker. People who do that are cheating themselves, their families, and their communities out of experiencing life to its fullest.
So...I would have to say CR and CP are not sell-outs. They are both accomplished people. Just because they don't subscribe to the same world view that I do or engage in activities that are "culturally Black" doesn't diminish what they've achieved.
Spankee's post about some Blacks being assimilated (my word, not spankee's) into the White world and not feeling there's anymore struggle is dead on. But again, what about those Blacks who've accepted that poverty, inequality, and drug dealing are just a part of our communities? I'd say they've forgotten the struggle as well. There is apathy on both ends of the spectrum.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
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