Many Blacks have succeeded in escaping the ghettos of America. They have obtained an education and advanced into managerial positions of local government careers and in the private sector. Once they begin drawing an annual salary of no less than $40,000, they no longer feel the obligations to and suppression of the ghetto.

Rightly so, anyone deserves better living conditions than a government apartment or even a section in a private managed apartment community. Plus, once a person gets to the age of 30 and outgrow the apartment - party life, they begin to think more seriously about their future, such as owning a home, advancing their career, and maybe continuing their education. This is common among the thinking of Black America and there is nothing wrong with this mindset.

However, if this person is in a managerial position in either of the two work forces, they have also gained a bit more knowledge as to how to do it. The popular thinking, however, among Blacks is that they would rather keep their sources of success a mystery instead of sharing that knowledge with someone else of lower status. They want admiration and praise from the lower level Blacks and take it upon themselves to flaunt their success. Then they turn to one who looks to them for assistance and say, "if I can do it you can too. Get up off you tail and out of the ghetto and do something with your life." Yet they give no starting point for this advice.

This is how Blacks become "white" in their thinking and social status among their ghetto underlings. There is something about Blacks who have "made it" that carries the stench of arrogance. Though their successes are to be commended, their attitudes that come along with that success is one that is not formed or developed by their own thinking, but by that of the thinking of whites toward Blacks. Instead of spreading their knowledge of how to make it to the masses, they withhold it and dish it out to a chosen few.

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