For better or worse, black America’s future is brightest if we become the nation’s best educated, most intellectually sophisticated, most highly developed social group that succeeds spectacularly in the academy and the marketplace while we push the nation toward justice in the interest of self-protection. This will be a difficult task, not least because so many of us are poor, badly schooled, unemployed, sick and afraid. But we have no choice: we must find a way to traverse the chasm between our current state and one where we compete successfully in schools, jobs and politics on our own terms, so much so that we gain real power to shape public, cultural and business affairs.
Sounds ever so Cuban to me..., part one of a promising looking think piece by Marcellus Andrews at the Black Commentator