What is the consequence of having so much of the theorization regarding Black American life rooted in the thoughts of the college educated, when the majority of Black people, like most people in America, are working class and working poor? So much of the scholarship and literature that comes out of the Black Chattering class in the United States reifies and replicates the foundations of "race relations," which is a notion that develops from the deployment of Booker T. Washington as unelected racial broker.

One of the reasons there has been this drive to deem every social phenomenon involving a group of people as a "movement" over the last decade stems from the way the New Left period of the 1960s is fetishized. Folks wish to have partaken in the 1960s like it was a softball game. There is much to romanticize about the 1960s New Left and the bravery with which many individuals risked their lives to challenge the status quo operating forces of society. However, the 1960s was the product of radical politics that had its foundation laid a generation before

The racial wealth gap hustle has been nothing but a neoliberal Brookings institute, JP Morgan Chase, Elite University, Black Chattering class canard from the jump. All of this, including reparations, will do nothing but give a wealth transfer to the Black Political Class (1) and its class acolytes. This was all about stopping Negroes from joining the progressive movement that developed post Occupy Wall Street and Bernie Sanders because the LAST thing the ruling class wanted was Black people joining over 30% of the Democrats demanding socialism (2)

"Matt Bruenig found that ‘the overall racial wealth disparity is driven almost entirely by the disparity between the wealthiest 10 per cent of white people and the wealthiest 10 per cent of black people’ (1) and that eliminating the gap between the bottom 90 per cent of each group would leave 77.5 per cent of the gap intact. He found as well that eliminating the gap between the bottom 50 per cent of the two populations would eliminate only 3 percent of the ‘racial’ gap. (2)

"Black politics in New Orleans as elsewhere is a petit-bourgeois class politics that projects demands for group recognition as equivalent to demands for popular redistribution; as retrenchment has become the political norm, recognition has increasingly displaced redistribution as the foundation of the political agenda. Even nominally insurgent or populist political expressions are articulated entirely within this framework, which is not without material stakes. The stakes, however, involve descriptive racial representation