We’re Not Going To Have Another Black American President For 20 Years

White Middle-Class Success Is More Toxic Than Masculinity

The reason why we’re not going to have a black president for at least another two decades has nothing to do with the fact that neither Kamala Harris nor Cory Booker are electable candidates. Rather, it’s wise to understand that the average American black person’s desire to approach and achieve a very traditionally middle class and white aesthetic by which to define social success is actually toxic to African-American sociopolitical growth. If we’re going to elect a black person, it’s a black person who maintains a foot in the struggle, a foot in an evolved standard of black excellence, an arm in wealth, a hand in diversity, and a constant eye in the back of his head staring down conservative and mainstream whites. It’s these folks who are probably most troubling. They’re likely staring at a status quo shifting ever more left and getting more frightened and prone to incendiary revolutionary action by the second.

The best way to frame this discussion hearkens back to 1974, and the time that the co-founders of the Black Panther Party split along lines of white middle-class appeal, and nothing for black folks trying to advance in an America defined largely by white middle-class traditions was the same ever…