April 07, 2005

Probing the Black Elite's Role for the 21st Century

I myself believe that today’s early 21st century Black elite will fulfill its outreach-to-Black-masses-leadership obligation. Today’s Black elite confronts a situation involving 40% of today’s African-American households that suffer numerous social crises.

As I read the article, common sense begged the question, "how did the black nation get from there to here?" Frankly, I have greater faith in the activated capabilities of a few unbowed, innovative, and autodidactic technocrats and academics - whose acts and whose facts may align to precipitate real interpersonal engagement with the "popular culture". The stench of Cosby's afrostocratic solipsism is still a tad acrid and thick in my nostrils...,

Part one of a three-part series at the Black Commentator - I can't wait to see on what basis Dr. Kilson makes his concluding sanguine prognosis.

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