The middle class debate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4595072.stm

This got me thinking. I get mad that these people are highlighted as supposed role models for me when the only thing they have in common is that they are Toms. All of them.

They are not the black middle class. They are the coconut class.
I must be careful of sending out the same messages the coconut class accuse us of. The coconut class is not to be confused with a black middle class you see.

The black middle class is vibrant and existant and always has been. We always have had the best of us in good positions, academics, doctors, lawyers, engineers and so on. We should champion these people. I want my children to be successful in such careers if they so choose. The problem is that among all these countless people who live out their normal lives everyday and some who are proactive and "down" there exists a small minority of clowns I call the coconut class.

These are the fools who call themselves "professional" and other words to dissaccociate themselves from the black african collective at all levels. These are the ones who the gave examples of.

What happens though is that the media and the coconut class themselves promote themselves to positions of high visibility through shared interest in demonstrating that the only way to be succesful is to imitate whites and be subservient. The message to the youth becomes confused. The juxtaposition of the medias pets and lackeys with the success and position they are accorded shows them that to be successful, one has to be a sellout.

The coconut class seize upon this and berate us for our jealousy saying that this is what WE believe. That when one such as I calls them sellouts I am attacking their success and drive, accusing me in irony of being a victimologist. The whole premise is that we are low and gutter and they are civillised. For their minds, when you call them the coconuts they are, they ignore all the reasons why. They just imagine you are jealous and assume you are not as succesful. I have heard their arguments countless times before. It's because they equate coconutism with success so for one to reject coconutism they assume one is scared of being successful. They can not envisage the one without the other.

When you talk about black unity and success it scares them because it reminds them that there was another way to be a success besides the coconut route they chose. That is why they attack and beat down any such talk insisting that their way of coconutism is the right way.

That article itself shows the destinction between the great and praiseworthy black middleclass and the insidious coconut class unintentionally. It mentions that the head of the college of surgeons is a black man. That's great. It also mentions that not many know that. That is because he is not a self publicising sellout lackey like so many others. He just gets on with it. The one thing the prominent people in that article have in common is that that they are not only black middle class but simultaneously coconut class as well.

Their success depends on their fame due to their lack of real talent (politicians and so called leaders of the community especially). They have to go to levels to maintain that fame/successs. The successful and good black man who is the head of the college of surgeons and the sister in charge of the nurses mentioned are not famous because their jobs are jobs of merit and they are the great black middle class.

NEVER to be confused with the all too prominent coconut class.

We should counter this by showing them/us the REAL black middle class I lie?

BTW the coconut I refer too is in the sense of what US friends call an Oreo or UK people also call a bounty.