Misguided Black Leadership Keeps Many Impoverished

[From article]
Following the Great Migration after the Civil War -- the journey of thousands of blacks to the North -- and beginning in the early 1910s, the Harlem Renaissance began to take form. From this movement sprung a successful Black community structure: the arts and institutions flourished, and a middle and upper-class of employees and business owners that had not existed before for the black community appeared.
Something started changing towards the end of the 1930s, though -- those middle and upper-class black men and women began to leave.
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Following the Great Migration after the Civil War -- the journey of thousands of blacks to the North -- and beginning in the early 1910s, the Harlem Renaissance began to take form. From this movement sprung a successful Black community structure: the arts and institutions flourished, and a middle and upper-class of employees and business owners that had not existed before for the black community appeared.
Something started changing towards the end of the 1930s, though -- those middle and upper-class black men and women began to leave.
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Instead of looking up to leaders who continue to foment strife, anger, and division, who interrupt speeches and chant for the death of police, why not these men and women who forging their own path, not content with their current station? Something tells me there is a reason few have heard these numbers -- anger and pessimism is easier, and being provocative gets better ratings.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/how_black_lives_emreallyem_matter.html

December 31, 2015
How Black Lives Really Matter
By F. F. Fiore