And that's the tragic thing.
America doesn't produce a class rich Black American professionals. Shit, America doesn't even produce a class of well off Black American professionals. You might make 250K a year but be 300K in debt due to education because your momma and daddy can't help you.
America really don't even produce an age diverse class of rich Black celebrities lol.
The same motherfuckers been around 20 years.
So we are talking about a small group of people that feel entitled to our praise and respect just because they rich, famous and Black.
It's not because they are Nobel Peace Prize winning scientists and engineers.
It's not because they are political activists.
Lol, but they quick to have us regular, working class Black people, reflect on our character as a race of people because we treat them like any other fucking celebrity of any other race.
Lol, like Shannon Sharpe sitting on the couch gossipping, hanging out with gay niggas and hip switching and we ain't supposed to say something.
Being an object of ridicule is part of the job Shay Shay lol.
I don’t know man- I see so many successful black men in the dmv and in Atlanta and the seven cities and around NYC and in the bay and in Seattle -
I don’t consider celebrities in the equation cause for every drake there are a million back pack dudes and even someone like Special Ed, Rakim or Das Efx - I bet I’m doing better than them financially and I looked up to them when I was younger.
A lot of black men, node and keep it moving. Because
A- we don’t want to flex on people that are less fortunate
B- we know how dangerous it is to flex around poor people
C- when you finally have something after years of grinding you find yourself around a group of equals - and thus - it ain’t that uncommon.
I would say this to any black man that doesn’t know another successful black man… make some other friends- we out here - no we ain’t rapping or making 100s of millions but again - that’s not success that’s excess and it’s tough to do that in a generation. Get your 1000s. Then 10000s and then go from there-
And stop seeing a HOF TE on tv as black success - that’s black celebrity - don’t mix those -
A professor making 100k at a U is a success - I work out with dude and he benching 365 and is a young dude- a muslim so his dead lift suffers when he fast - so I’m gonna pass him this month: but he is successful- ain’t a millionaire but successful by every measure that matters -
Black, young, good woman, great job, works out like a G, and can discuss geo politics with anyone on equal footing -
Like I said ill be at
https://convention.nsbe.org/welcome/
we out here at every HBCU and every Ivy and at MIT and Stanford - we ain’t all touting the rock -
Some of us mathletes bro - pi day tomorrow - get at your boy