The future of the black economic and political condition, rest in the hands of Afro-American leaders and achievers. There is no longer a blatant plot to hinder or discourage opportunity in this country; we are free to accomplish whatever goals we choose. What suppresses Afro-American prosperity is grouping among the race and the division is widening each day.

There are the elite, educated blacks and there are the masses of semi-educated working class blacks. The well-educated blacks live in well-to-do areas and the black underclass live in the inner cities. The division alone is a substantial part of the underdevelopment of the Afro-American.

Afro-American leaders and the elite proclaim injustice in political representation and economic opportunities for the black race yet steadily depend on the white politicians to pass laws that will somehow equalize the opportunities. Black leaders as the mouthpiece of the black race demand equality among the rich and successful of this society yet they know not what they ask for.

They want man for man, and woman for woman. If there is a white anchorwoman, the leaders want a black anchorwoman too. If there is a white state representative, the leaders want a black state representative. If there is a new housing development going up in the suburbs, the leaders want equal access to it. In all the things they want, they want exactly what the white race has. What ever happen to personal preference, unity, and individuality?

Many black speakers and leaders constantly rally the United States government for reparations to the black race, a long-heard cry of the once promised forty acres and a mule. They challenge one another for answers to the economic problems of Afro-Americans, yet they have never stopped to count the blessing of God. All who cry these loud, outrageous protest for repayment to the black community are the same ones who raised up off the forty acres at the first dollar of success and go lounge in their newly erected subdivisions in the suburbs with the white folks.

The inner cities are a blessing in disguise; they are the forty acres and the leaders are the mules. However, instead of reconstructing and reinvesting in the hoods and ghettos as home, they choose to claim success in the suburbs, along with their white constituents. If blacks ever got reparations from white American, who knows if the elite would not use it to monopolize the masses?