Doesn't make them any better than the less-well-off black families; it just reminds me that there were bits of hard-won prosperity in diasporic black communities.
In high school, he was the president of a chapter of Jack and Jill, the social networking group for well-off black children.
There are pictures of enslaved people on plantations, but also well-off black families in tender poses, proud black Union soldiers, escaped slaves aboard a Union warship, Emancipation Day celebrations and reunions of former slaves.
A white cop sexually humiliates a well-off black couple; a black cop can't bother to remember where his Latina girlfriend is from (Mexico, El Salvador, they're all the same to him); a white matron doesn't trust the help, until she does.
Privately-educated (ie, well-off) blacks do not get a leg-up in university admissions.
One is left wondering why he or anyone should celebrate the rise of the black middle class if the majority of those well-off blacks are locked in the cults of victimology and separatism -- and choked by anti-intellectualism -- as he contends.
For example, well-off urban blacks may be choosing to live in traditionally black neighbourhoods, despite the worse air and the fact that they could afford to live elsewhere.
HOW well off are Americans?
Well off, comfortably off, struggling.
