An unexplored drawback of talented tenth-ism is that successful blacks arouse envy in whites...
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but when whites try to punish "blacks" bc of their envy, that punishment is generally mild for talented tenth and crushing for poor blk folk
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obviously I'm not saying black folk shouldn't shine bc "don't scare the whites." But I am saying that's one more reason...
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to be skeptical of the talented-tenth strategy (which sadly is probably the story of antiracism 1979 - 2012.
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