The notion that race conveys responsibility is utterly bogus. Does anyone think I should move to a low rent trailer park to improve life for low income whites?
Race doesn't convey responsibility. It injects a pretty standard set of forces into our varied lives. It only makes sense for those who deal with those forces to see themselves as a constituency.
Would low income whites benefit from mingling with middle-to-upper class whites?
Unless black managerial and professional workers move back into the hood in droves, and, reinstall a stabilizing guardian syndrome within our social collective that provides moral, legal, educational and commercial impetus for the whole - the hood is for all intents and purposes, a collective lost cause incapable of bootstrapping itself out of its present plight.
Getting picky-particular with terminology, I think "support" is better than "impetus," only because I think folks are about to run into situations in which we need social maneuverability. Also I'm not prepared to predefine the direction future folk should take
Exploit an inherent sense of racial inferiority and oppression, by measuring success solely by one's attainment of material wealth
Inherent?
I'll name Quaker in Basement for this observation:
Beyond maintaining the system that put 'em there in the first place?
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