Shots fired: The Skipgate turns into Whitewomangate!

Baby, you marry me, and I could be the chair of the African American Studies Program

Awesomeness courtesy of Fuhbuhduh. The names have been changes to protect the innocent.

T-bubbles has noticed many black women zealously supporting Gates and
finds it dreadfully painful that this man, this scholar of all things
African American, could not manage to find love with a black woman.
Although I will continue to defend the black man’s freedoms because my
love for the black man is as natural as breathing, I can’t help but
wonder…who will come to the aid of the black woman?

Yesterday at 7:41pm · Comment · LikeUnlike
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(AG)
I wish I could like this multiple times, or possibly even love it. May
this serve as a powerful message to all of the lost HLS black men who
shall remain nameless.
Yesterday at 7:44pm

(B-Eazy)
Thanks! Will let you all know when I’m found. Can’t speak for the rest
of the lost HLS black men. You can name us. I don’t hide. But rest
assured. My mother is a black woman. My grandmother is a black woman.
My daughters, will be black women (even if mixed). Who will come to
their aid? The same lost black men you demean today. who will come to
your… Read More daughters aid? To your aid? This lost black man
will. Because I am proud to be black, and I will always fight
tirelessly against racism and division. I thank you, (T-Bubbles), for your
support of Professor Gates despite his choice of spouse.
Yesterday at 8:10pm

(J-Beezy)
Can’t help who you love. Works out that way whether the consequences
are good, bad, or benign.
Yesterday at 8:32pm

(T-dub)
the devil
Yesterday at 8:43pm

(Richy Rich)
What B-Eazy said
Yesterday at 8:44pm

(B-Eazy)
Unreal. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think certain people thought
the injustice here was who he happened to fall in love with, rather
than the fact that this man was profiled, harassed, and humiliated in
his own house because he was black. That is what happened here. That
is the injustice. White wife, black wife, asian wife, hispanic wife,
save it for another day. Is it really less of an outrage
because his wife isn’t black? Professor Gates is an accomplished black
man who was subjected to horrible, racist treatment by the cops who
have sworn to protect him as a citizen of cambridge. I would plead
with the educated to focus on the true issue here. Direct this hatred
and disgust toward the treatment of this black man, not his personal
life choices.
Yesterday at 9:28pm

(Chuck)
It’s just kind of odd though, to be presented as such an accomplished
man, in a field that he studies and loves, but is not reflected in his
personal life.
Yesterday at 9:31pm

(T-Bubbles)
B-Eazy, I feel neither hatred nor disgust towards black men. I love
you guys and I feel the full weight of the injustice that was done by
the Cambridge police. But at the same time, some days it is painful to
be a black woman and to feel like we’re nobody’s treasure, nobody’s
dream. My comments come from a place of pain and not anger.
Yesterday at 9:37pm

(AG)
I, Chuck, do find that particularly odd. However, I, like (T-Bubbles),
also support Dr. Gates in his mission to protest against unwarranted
arrests regardless of his choice of spouse.

Furthermore, I wouldn’t expect anything else from the black men of HLS
but a statement similar to that put forth by Mr. Eazy and
co-signed by Mr. Richy Rich My daughters and I would
perish waiting for a so-called “educated” black man to “come to our
aid” in any capacity. Clearly you are very proud to be a black man
which, I suppose, is why you have opted to date a woman who is not a
reflection of yourself. Actions speak louder than words. While you
proclaim that you are proud and that you would come to the aid of a
black woman, isn’t it odd that, although many of us walk the campus of
HLS, beautiful and educated in all our glory, you found none of us
suitable as a partner with whom you could share your heart, your mind,
your body, your soul. Amazing.
Yesterday at 9:38pm

(AG)
J-Beezy– you make a good point when you say that you can not help who you
love. I agree entirely, but, as the saying goes- “Just because I love
you- and you love me- that doesn’t mean we’re meant to be.” I believe
that, when it comes to finding a life partner, too much emphasis is
placed on “love.” The most successful relationships are based on a …
combination of love and practical decision-making. The
preservation of one’s culture and the strenghtening of one’s racial
and ethnic community is a factor that I, for one, think is worth
considering when selecting a spouse.
Yesterday at 9:40pm

(B-Eazy)
I truly do hope that you, Miss (AG), find not only the black man you
seek, but find someone who matches the hatred you have in your heart.
Date a woman who is not a reflection of myself? I guess I could not
date someone like you. I personally pride myself in not being a
racist, not being a bigot, and not being militant. White or black, I’m
not down… Read More with that. Tell me, since you are so willing to
attack me and those like me, are you actually trying to date me? Marry
me? If not, then what gives you the right to attack me? Share my
heart, body, mind, and soul? With a bigot?

T-Bubbles, I feel you. And I appreciate and with all my heart I am sorry
for your pain and will pray for your healing and for the man that will
come and sweep you off your feet and treat you like you should be
treated. Some of you question my commitment to the advancement of my
race, go ahead. Whether you like it or not, I stand on your side. You
can spit in my face, but I will reach out my hand to help in a minute.
Yesterday at 9:48pm

(B-Eazy)
I do not pretend to know what its like to be a black woman today. That
is why I would love to sit down with you T-bubbles and have a respectful,
reasonable conversation so that we may learn from each other. That in
my daily life I may have a greater understanding of where you are
coming from and how I can help, despite apparently being a man who has
shamed his people.

However, others must understand that hate gets you nowhere, regardless
the color of your skin. I choose not to think that one, two, ten, or
100 blacks can speak for the entire race. However, I will not stand
for wrong despite nasty comments. Wrong is wrong. God made us all in
his image. Man created “race”. We are all beautiful. Every last one of
us. Some people should do good to remember that.

But as for you T-Bubbles, thank you for your clarification, and I see
what you mean now and I look forward to talking with you whenever
you’d like. We are both god’s children, we are both proud,
accomplished african-americans. I choose
Yesterday at 9:53pm

(B-Eazy)
To believe we all have more in common than not, and our destinies too
intertwined to pick at each other. Best, B-Eazy
Yesterday at 9:54pm

(AG)
First, I am not a racist or a bigot, and I have absolutely no hatred
in my heart. There is no room for hatred in my heart, as it is
overflowing with disappointment. I responded to your comment, which
was clearly directed at my statement that men such as yourself are
lost. Clearly you are angry at me for pointing out something of which
you should have already been aware. Furthermore, I am not
trying to date you, marry you- but even if I was, any attempt to do so
would have been futile, as you have clearly indicated your preference,
as evidenced by your facebook picture. How sweet.

I am a strong, educated, FEARLESS black woman the likes of which, I am
sure, makes men such as yourself cringe. Don’t label me a racist
because my opinion is controversial. I have every right to express
myself and, as a woman seeking love and respect from a group of men
who she was raised to love and honor but who, apparently, are
incapable of reciprocating those sentiments, I have every right to be
angry.
Yesterday at 10:01pm

(Chuck)
I think we got off course – the point is the man in charge of African
American Studies department is a fake.
Yesterday at 10:01pm

(B-Eazy)
Clearly indicated my preference by putting a picture up of my
girlfriend and myself? Do you ever find it hard not to choke on your
bullshit? Me not being interested in people like you has nothing to do
with the outside. It’s about the inside.

You make me cringe? Ms. AG, you can’t even make me blink. I do not
know why I waste my time even responding to your slander. I’m a
strong, educated FEARLESS black man, the likes of which you were
apparently raised to love. If you must blame someone, blame my STRONG,
EDUCATED, FEARLESS BLACK MOTHER who raised me to love, period and seek
to do the greatest possible good, regardless who I end up with.

I’m labeling you a racist because you are spewing racist crap
everywhere. You do have every right to express yourself. But I have
every right to defend MYSELF, and call you on it…. Read More

And apparently, you are labeling every single black man out there as
incapable of loving you because you are black? COME ON. Be angry. See
where it gets you.
Yesterday at 10:07pm

(AG)
Mr. Chuck clearly Mr. Eazy had something on his mind that has
been bothering him for quite sometime. Rather than handling the
situation like a man by sitting down and having a discussion with me,
he chose to remove me from his facebook friend list (yes. he did), and
hash out our differences via a mutual friend’s facebook status. I’m
just glad T-Bubbles could provide a forum for him to express himself.
Hopefully he feels better now.
Yesterday at 10:07pm

(AG)
Mr.Eazy, I have no doubt that you and I will find ourselves at
the same ultimate destination- in the loving arms of a caucasian
spouse. I enjoyed our discussion. Good night.
Yesterday at 10:09pm

(B-Eazy)
“I wish I could like this multiple times, or possibly even love it.
May this serve as a powerful message to all of the lost HLS black men
who shall remain nameless.”-AG.

First comment in response to T-Bubbles’s post. It’s not me that has had
anything bothering me. Not me that needed a forum. It was you. Not me
that first called anyone out. That was you.

Be a man and sit down? You are out of your mind. What, you want to get
coffee in a few weeks with me? That’s what you wanna do? Don’t worry,
I’ll get it black. … Read More

De-friend you? Why the hell am I gonna be fbook friends with someone
who hates what I do with my life? My bad if i got sick of your racist
statuses.

There’s no hashing out these differences. I just hope every non-black
person you actually are friends with sees the stuff you are spewing
here tonight. And I hope you don’t plan on keeping those friends much
longer.
Yesterday at 10:12pm

(AG)
First, I have no friends- only acquaintances sir. Second, anyone who
is so closed-minded and afraid to hear a somewhat controversial
opinion and who has not learned through personal interaction that I am
absolutely, positively NOT a racist can cease to be friends with me if
they so choose. Quite frankly- I don’t need ’em.

You are lost, and it’s so sad. But you are who you are. And who you
are is somebody I do not wish to know.
Yesterday at 10:18pm

(B-Eazy)
Get over yourself. I know my life is ending tonight that Ms. A “I
have no friends-only acquaintances” G does not wish to know me. I
appreciate your pity, and wish I could reciprocate. All I can do from
my pit of despair however, is laugh at the ridiculousness. Happy
hating, ms. G.
Yesterday at 10:20pm

(AG)
Thank you- not only for wishing me well, but for showing that, when
all else fails, you result to labeling what you are too simple to
understand as “ridiculous.” Mr. Yale. Mr. Harvard Law. Pay close
attention America- this is the educated black man.

Good night. Again.
Yesterday at 10:24pm

(B-Eazy)
You know me, simple country boy with no education and no sense. Can’t
even put sentences together.

Do pay close attention, America. I guarantee you are all paying such
close attention to the thoughts of Ms. (AG) on facebook.

You demean what you claim to love, the “educated black man”. You have
a really funny way of showing it.

Goodnight!
Yesterday at 10:27pm

(Bobby Knuckles)
wow, just seeing all of this. what a monumental waste of time.
B-Eazy, remember what jay-z said about arguing with fools? don’t
waste anymore time on this, my man.
Yesterday at 10:40pm

(Chuck)
This kind of hit the fan, I feel like Gates isn’t going to be the only
drama up at Harvard this year!
Yesterday at 10:41pm

(AG)
Mr. Knuckles- do you remember what whoever raised you said about minding
your business and not judging people, especially those who you do not
know?

My man.
Yesterday at 10:49pm

(Bobby Knuckles)
you can call me bobby, and i was raised by wolves. i’ll give you the
cold honest truth here: you haven’t found love with a black man, not
because there’s a mass conspiracy orchestrated by the christina
aguileras of the world, but because you’re appearing to be a miserable
person and bitter as shit. try a little introspection before you point
all these fingers.
Yesterday at 11:01pm

(AG)
See, Bobby, IF you knew me (hint hint), you would know that all this
“bitter and miserable as shit”-ness that I exhibit is the RESULT OF,
rather than the cause of, how I and many other similarly situated
black women have been treated by black men.

Now, as I did Mr. Eazy, I will wish you a good night.
Yesterday at 11:08pm

(J-Beezy)
(AG), on your comments about love not being enough to sustain a
relationship with a life partner, you have the research on your side,
according to something interesting I read from Reuters the other day:
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSP483675. “In love?
It’s not enough to keep a marriage, study finds”
11 hours ago

(B-Eazy)
This link says nothing about race. Love may not be enough, but neither
is race. I agree with Ms. AG that love may not always be enough.
But I disagree with any implication that race is.
12 minutes ago

(J-Beezy)
I didn’t imply that race was enough. Or at least, I didn’t mean to
imply that. Wasn’t my intention. I only intended to respond to
AG‘s comment to me: “I believe that, when it comes to finding a
life partner, too much emphasis is placed on ‘love.'” I happened to
read that article the other day, and I thought it was relevant to the
point she was making. I brought it up because, as
something of a romantic, I would’ve been more inclined to debate the
point about whether love is enough (and argued in favor of love often
being enough) if I had not recently read about that study. That’s the
only reason I posted it. I thought it fit into this conversation’s
subplot about what makes a good relationship, but I wasn’t suggesting
that I was gung-ho behind any of the factors mentioned in the study as
the key to successful relationships. Merely agreeing with AG that
it seems love is not always enough to make a relationship last. I
think that means I agree with you on that point too, B-EAzy.
6 minutes ago

B-Eazy
Ok, thanks for the clarification, J-Beezy. I do think that the article is
compelling and what we see in the movies and hear in the radio makes
us believe something that unfortunately probably isn’t true. In the
context of the previous conversation, I thought you meant to imply
other things. Thanks for the follow up. Good post. Solid article.

So…. Good and heated, just the way I like my interracial dating convos. What do y’all think? Is B-Eazy a self-hating sellout? And by that justification is Skip Gates too? Are these guys the reason the educated AG’s of the world can’t find love? Or is AG’s chip on her shoulder her own worst enemy? (From my perspective, I do think the “I have no friends, only acquaintances” comment speaks volumes about an inability to form close relationships) Does IR dating really get people that upset? Why? And what about the double standard when black women date white guys? I mean half the time I post anything about relationship difficulties, at least a couple black women make it known that they have options outside the race. And everyone seems cool with that. Discuss

But would we get anywhere near as upset about this?

Class warfare Part II: Why everyone hates the “black elite”

Can you see my nose job? Isn't it awesome?

So last week, I ripped the lower class a new asshole for their multitude of failings. This week, it’s your turn, “Our Kind of People.” And it’s long since past time someone took you all to task. Let’s face it, you people are insufferable. I say this with love, because while I may not be a “de facto” part of you all’s little thing, to some degree, our fates are intertwined, so if this makes you upset, think about it as me looking out for our own interests. Tough love if you will. Now, I was never a member of J&J, never pledged a frat, have never received an invite from the Boule. So I can maybe look at some of you all’s behavior from an outsider’s perspective. But I have lived in your cities, gone to your schools, and maybe diddled your women a little bit, so I’m close enough that this isn’t just someone throwing rocks from afar. Here’s why you suck:

1. You’re really not that elite. Many of you spend far too much of your time trying to one-up people that look like you but aren’t you. You pull out your fancy awards, memberships, and degrees, and somehow believe this makes you better than everyone else. Worse than that, many of you have nothing to recommend you other than lineage. Seriously, I’m supposed to give you props because your great grandfather was the first black dentist in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina? In the same breath, you people try to use these pitiful self-aggrandizing odes to look down on blacks who made it via hard work. I remember when Lawrence Otis Graham, your doucebag king, was putting together his list of the “Black families that matter”, he was so proud to exclude Jay-Z.

“People like Oprah and Bill Cosby shouldn’t be compared to Jay-Z and Beyonce,” Graham said. “While all the people on the list will be millionaires and billionaires, it is also about where did you go to school? Who are you married to? What med school did your granddaddy go to?”

Hmm. Jay’s worth $400 Million. How much are you worth, nose job? When Forest City Ratner wanted to redevelop Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards, who did he go to as the public face to appease the black community in Brooklyn? Who owns an ownership stake in the Nets (albeit less than 1%). Here’s a hint: It ain’t Lawrence Otis Graham. But if it makes you feel better to try and socially stratify yourself as better than someone more powerful than you because your great granddaddy was lucky enough to go to college, knock yourself out. And this isn’t just limited to LOG. Many of you people really aren’t elite period. It’s not just that you’re not better than Jay-Z, you’re not any better than some fresh off the boat Ghanaian going to school here. That dude probably speaks three languages and his been all around the world. The best you’ve done is go to N’awlins for Essence Fest. Check out this article in the Root to get a sense of how much better people with far meaner backgrounds are doing than you all. And your English isn’t all that good. One of my friends was the one of the first black partners at Goldman. His family’s African, and he would have nothing to do with the lot of you just as you probably would have nothing to do with him.

Jide > You all

2. You’re worthless to anyone other than yourselves. While many of you bask in the gory of being the “only ones”, meaning the only black at your firm, school, country club, etc., you really do next to nothing to open up these opportunities for other. You’re fine being the taken as long as it benefits you and keeps you getting glorified at the next Bougie Black chapter meeting. When’s the last time you actively mentored a promising inner-city kid? Or made a donation to buy books for an underfunded black school. Or took some time to teach single-mother raised boys how to tie a tie and dress for an interview? I’ll wait. But you’re the same people who scoff and guffaw at T-Pain buying the “big ass chain” while lamenting what he could do for the community.

"Have we sent them n****s back into slavery yet?" "No but we're close. Awards show is coming up" "Excellent!"

3. You take yourselves way too seriously. Unfortunately, no one else does. It’s great that you have your facebook group claiming tobe the HBCU Ivy League. But outside of a couple schools on that list, ask anyone from the real Ivy League and see what they have to say about that. Ask the Indians and Chinese who are mollywhomping you in terms of wealth creation and career achievement. I mean it may feel good to look down on someone cause they went to Morgan State, but in the places where decisions are actually being made, no one really takes it that seriously.

Femi Otedola, who knocked Bob Johnson off the Billionaires list

4. The rest of the world has passed you by. Sorry, guys, you’re the fax machine in an email world. There was a time in which, yes, you did need to get on board with you all’s agenda to get anywhere in life as a black person. But praise Oliver, that time is gone. Two words: Barack Obama. Who is the poster child for the tupe of guy you don’t consider one of your own until they get somewhere. Now you’re mad cause Michelle hasn’t reached out to the upper crust black community in DC. That’s cause y’all wouldn’t have been reaching out to her had she not made FLOTUS. I picked up the example of Jide and Jay-Z earlier. The fact is, what you all offer is growing remarkably irrelevant. I don’t need an introduction or a cosign from any of you to talk to top level bankers, developers, and financiers. I’ve made those connections completely without your help. Matter of fact, those guys? They don’t even know you. They’ve never heard of you. And in the few instances where I’ve tried to go to you for support, for the most part, I’ve had to put up with your self-importance and you thinking I owe you something. And you usually don’t know anyone above VP level anyway. Because that’s your lane. Middle of the road, not Master of the Universe. In all seriousness, hanging around with you all for too long would only make a promising person more risk-averse and less able to get out and get it.

Now this isn’t a characterization of all of your kind of people. Just some If this one stung, well, you know, A Hit Dog Hollers. What do y’all think? Bougies and non-bougies alike.

Class Warfare Pt. I Our Kind of People vs. You all

Before

After

So I went to Sequoia’s on the DC waterfront for my birthday a few weeks ago.  Well, let me restate that. Tried to go to Sequoia. After a lovey dinner at Bistro Fraincais (I highly recomend their early bird prix fixe special: 3 courses for $25), we strolled down there only to find that last call is now 9PM. Last year, it was 10PM. Back in the day, I think it was like 12PM. My friends and I all surmised the same thing: They’re really trying hard to get rid of the element. By the element, I’m referring to a name my friend Bianca calls a certain class of people. You know who I’m talking about. So we went over to Tony and Joe’s, which is right next to Sequoia, and where the element migrates once the Hennessy stops flowing at Sequoia. If you’re unfamiliar with sequoia, it’s a large seafood restaurant in Washington DC right on the harbor. What makes the place neat is that it’s large, has great views of the water, and has a huge outdoor area with tables and a bar and these nicely lit trees. If you live in Brooklyn, think a much more upscale Habana. But with fish, not corn.

All this brought me back to a conversation I had a few years ago when my Mom, my Dad, and his friend Chucky were all eating at Sequoia on what happened to be a Sunday evening. Chucky’s from Cape Cod and is one of the few black people I know who can pull off a Massachusetts accent without a hint of irony. You know, like BAH-ston. Cape CAHD. Things of that nature. We were eating my mom began discussing the influx of people who frankly, didn’t look like they belonged there. The Element. I explained to my Mom, who’s a rural sociologist by training , and naturally thinks of these patterns in nerd terms, that around 5 or 6, there’s a shift change in the consumer base. The upper class whites and blacks finishing up Sunday Brunch dates or an early dinner with the family close out their tabs and vacate to make room for lower class negroes from Prince George’s county and Ward 7 and 8, and their middle class hangers-on who ascribe to emulate their hip lower class values and sense of style. Chucky, who lives a stone’s throw away from Martha’s vineyard mentioned that the same thing had been happening recently there. The Mom, being the little fireplug that she is, argued that we shoudn’t let them drive us out, rather we should stand fast against the tide and rally forth. We should take back this beach from these trespassers! It was a stump speech worthy of Winston Churchill. I invited her to stay around in that case. To which she replied, “I don’t need to be around these ghetto people. Tennis is on. I’m going home.” Way to abandon your troops, Mom.

So I had pretty much forgotten about this whole shebang but for the fact that a couple of articles came out recently talking about the ever-widening class divide that seems to be gripping Black America. One in the Root, was about the over-representation of foreign blacks in Ivy League schools. The comments show the schism as people argue for the many reasons American blacks underperform.  One in New York Mag, written by the insufferable Toure, was actually directed at the exact same phenomena Chucky was talking about two years ago: The Element invading Martha’s Vineyard and the response by upper-crusty blacks wearing polo shirts and eating cucumber sandwiches. The response wasn’t positive. But the strategic response was very effective:

“A series of community meetings were convened. “No one said ‘Where all these loud niggers coming from?’ But that was the vibe from black and white Vineyarders.” In 1997, a solution was implemented that was simple and subtle enough to fix the problem while avoiding charges of racism: The ferry from Woods Hole changed its policy to eliminate standby passengers and to make reservations nontransferable. Party promoters could no longer buy tickets in bulk, and most students wouldn’t think to make a reservation months ahead of time. The parties moved elsewhere, and the Vineyard went back to business as usual.”

So why? Why did they come to OUR places with their unrefined manners, baggy clothes, rude conduct towards women and loud cursing? And better yet, why are we so perturbed by this? Are we threatened, embarassed, annoyed? Why can’t we just get along? Here are some ideas I’ve heard:

1. You all like to start shit: As part of your general chip on your shoulder and obsession with swag and being tough guys, an unacceptable percentage of you didn’t come to socialize, you came to fight. An unacceptable percentage of that percentage came with guns. Now while you all can beat each other in the streets and shoot at each other all day with somewhat limited repercussions, the same isn’t true for us. A felony assault charge for us would throw a serious wrench into most of our plans. Which when we invariably run into you leaves us with some unpalatable choices:

-Get Chumped

-Fight you and lose. You’re probably better at it than we are since you have so much practice. Also, your freinds will undoubtedly jump us, and since a couple of our friends are kind of punks, you’ll have the numbers advantage.

-Fight you and win. And get hauled off to jail, incurring bail costs, legal defense fees and a potentially career killing felony. Great

2. You make it harder for us. People associate us with you because of the fairly obvious phenotypical similarities. So when you show up with your retrograde behavior, let’s face it, it reflects badly on us. Next time WE show up to the same place, we’re going to be subject to a certain level of suspicion because last time YOU were there, three people got shot.

3. You’re a bad influence As much as we would like to make our brand of unthreatening academic high achievement “cool”, it appears that you all with your casual nonchalance, shiny watches, and rollicking swagger have won the culture wars up to this point. Which means that you’ve done a magnificent job of subverting OUR youth to your way of life. Witness the piss-poor academic performance of schools in even high-income black suburbs and the fact that we all dress like you. You are a fashionable bunch, I’ll grant you that. But your seductive negative influence on too many of US has got to stop.

4. You judge us. Not unlike how we judge you, so I can’t really blame you. It’s called cass warfare, not class one-side assault.Regarding the vineyard, one person in the article said:

“It’s this mecca where you can be yourself and be with people who have so much in common with you. No one has to feign some street cred when they’re playing tennis.” It’s a source of communion and of pride. “When you see a beautiful black family with their kids, it makes you feel really good about being black,”

You all, not so much. We don’t really feel good about being black around you all for two reasons. One, your version of blackness is wack. It’s an infantile celebration of violence, materialism, mysogyny, and general underperformance. Two, you make us feel that our version of blackness is inadequate. We know we should be confident in our version and believe in it, but it’s difficult. We want to feel conencted to “blackness”, not have it questioned or ridiculed because we don’t engage in the more self-destructive aspects of your culture. We realize we can be  a little tight-assed sometime. We’ll work on it.

So am I totally out of line here? Was this just a rant designed to up the arms race of class warfare/ Or are wroking towards something of a resolution? What are your thoughts? I’ve only covered one side of the argument. Part II will discuss what the upper class is doing oh so wrong.