
how someone with a mindset like this supposedly got into an Ivy League school is beyond me. One of the core qualities their admission process prioritizes is leadership.
I was very different back then, naive, idealistic. I had faith in the possibility of a better talented tenth, of which I intended to be a part. I knew some amazing black adults who were really making us proud. Unfortunately, their children, the next gen, lost the plot. They got lost in the privilege their parents worked so hard to provide. Prep school your whole life makes you different. They became classist instead of anti-racist/ pro- black.
These are the people yall post on here. I went to school with some of the experts yall cite, its hilarious to me, we be cracking up. They were classist then and they're classist now, but many of my people can't see it bc they're also the ones who've been
propagandizing us. So the language sounds normal, banal even. It's all very newspeak.
The night Obama won, all of Harlem converged on 125th st, a never ending block party. I was walking past a bodega and ended up talking to an older guy on the corner, late 30's maybe. He had the world weary look of somebody who had served real time upstate. So, I'm all hype and shyt and I asked him if he was happy we had a black president. He told me point blank, 'That nikka ain't gon do shyt.

' I was horrified. I had bundled money, gone to fundraisers, etc, but I was raised to be respectful to everybody so I said nothing and wished him a good night, thinking he just didn't get it. It was
me who didn't get it.
He was absolutely right.
That taught me a lot and, I think, quelled whatever inclination to leadership I had. I mean, I was an activist, I organized protests in college, I was bout that life. But that realization killed it. How could I lead ppl when I obviously didn't understand what was going on? As well educated as I was, I didn't know shyt.