This writer and readers needed to watch a documentary called BORN RICH...which exposed the lives of RICH WHITE CHILDREN of rich white parents. These white parents routinely payoff schools, teachers, institutions so that their children will appear to do well educationally. These well off children from families like the Buffets, Vanderbilts, Kleins, heirs to A&P supermarket etc etc are no more than JUNKIES, DROP OUTS AND ALL AROUND FAILURES ( I won't even get into their drug and alcohol addiction problems or their social and sexual issues). The one thing they have unlike the Black students are connections to political parties, educational institutions, legal members/institutions and connections to social circles where the who's who dwell. What I do not like is, when any other race of people mingle with whites and there is the confusion that ALL ARE THE SAME.....NOT. The Africans, Chinese, Indians, Hispanics, Blacks, etc are looked upon by their white counterparts as NOT being a part of the 'clique' even if their incomes are the same or higher, their intelligence the same or higher, their social position is the same or higher.
The Black students in this Shaker Heights community I am sure think that becasue they financially are on par with the whites they can do as they do....NOT. So dropping out of school or doing poorly (deliberately) thinking "well I am rich so what do I need an education is NOT going to work for them. They lacked the CONNECTIONS: political, educational, social to GET OVER like the whites have. Can any of us forget the bungling idiot that was and is GEORGE BUSH...whose father paid off Yale in order for him to be able to get in as well as paid for all of his grades. His father paid for him to start businesses ...all of which FAILED as well as paid for him to be president. Ole Georgie boy is the epitome of white, rich and priviledged and through this he achieved things not attainable in ANY OTHER WAY. The movie W. highlights many of the BENEFITS white George Bush had access to in order to become what he became. Clinton (Bill) like Geroge Bush Sr was priviledged as well and had all of the connections necessary to attain what for him would have been UNATTAINABLE.
Now in america there is Obama...just looking at his administration tells everyone who is controlling him, he was the protege of Kissinger (ewwww) and like a good puppet he is doing his bidding. Obama had/has NO Black political connections, social conections, educational connections or legal connections so he has to dance to the tune of whites and walk on egg shells. The few Blacks in america who are in political positions have little to no power to influence and those with monetary wealth better not try to BUY influence or else they will find themselves embroiled in some crazy scandal, exposed for buying influence, dragged under by some sex scandal or out right killed.
The world that whites live in and their access and priviledge is entirely different that the world Blacks live in who also are rich: Oprah, Jordan, Cosby, Jackson, Kilpatrick etc etc etc. These people have to EARN their money, respect, education etc etc ...IT IS NOT HANDED TO THEM. In my college years I had many white friends who were from well to do areas and I met other well to doers from campuses like Georgetown, American university, Loyola, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania etc etc the attitudes of the whites was casual...almost beligerant toward having to do assignments/homework while the Black, Hispanic, Chinese, Indian etc students stressed over doing it and doing it well. I quickly found out that the white student's parents all had connections and when their children graduated they quickly went to work at companies owned by these connections whereas the Black, Hispanic, Indian, Chinese etc students fretted over job searches, resumes, job fairs and looking for people to be references/ offer recommendations. The writer of this article seems to deliberatley OVERLOOK these facts in his attempt to merely write a story or participate in a degredation like another Black Harvard professor (Henry Louis Gates) who though he teaches Black History,,,doesn't seem to know much about Black History. Maybe this anthropologist should have researched the backgrounds of these whites whom he sees as ACHIEVING HIGHER STANDARDS...what he will find is a people whose higher standards are based on how much they contribute(d) to what political, educational, social or legal party and how those parties will benefit them when needed....
