Sex & Politics

From Ed at Dream and Hustle:

“The man who points his fingers at everyone else got four other fingers pointing back to himself”
“Stand” by Arrested Development, Album: Since the Last Time

Let me keep this short and simple – why most of you middle-class (actually working class) Black “arrived” characters end up turning 36 and still stuck at some dead-end white collar job trying to act young and ish? You knew you were suppose to save money and get out on your own because you knew about that glass ceiling when you got in the workforce.

Poor people are poor people. But you cats working these nice jobs had the opportunity since graduating college to put aside money to make side-hustle to full-hustle moves. You freaking 36 now and still waiting on a paycheck, what happened to Plan B? And in case some of you personal cats were wondering, yeah, I’m looking at your old ass at the workplace knowing you made decent cheddar over the years but wasn’t responsible enough to make sure your Black ass wasn’t pressed against that glass ceiling when you turned 40.

In case you forgot, you were the one the Black community and your Black family nurtured hoping to bring back more capital to lift up the community. But you took a fixed salary job with single digit raises, got stagnant, just happy you driving a Cadillac Escalade or Chrysler 300 you will have paid off or lease return after two years.

I see poor people transcending to middle-class, but I’m damn sure ain’t seeing a lot of middle-class transcending up to the empowered entrepreneurs. So let’s keep it real – who is the real biggest letdown in the Black community? I’ll give you a hint: look at those other four fingers when you point at underprivileged disaffected Black people when Barack Obama or Bill Cosby talks.

We can really go there with the “irresponsible Black people” ish with some of you pro-Cosby characters if you want to run that debate. Because if we going to discuss opportunity-invested/opportunity-lost ratios or ROI, working middle-class Blacks are the biggest disappointment and most irresponsible hands down in terms of holding the Black community back from real socio-economic progress.

‘Till Next Time