"It's part of a general pessimism that people have toward young people. [...] This idea that black people, 35 and under, have not done enough to take advantage of the opportunities that the earlier generation made available is ultimately shortsighted, but it's also no different than any other generation. We can talk about the folks before, during the great migration, who thought kids brought up in the North were missing something, or before them and with people coming out of slavery who thought their kids weren't taking advantage of opportunities—it's the same thing."
| A quote from Spelman University professor William Jelani Cobb in noted Cosbyologist Ta-Nehisi Coates' Village Voice article "Mushmouth Reconsidered," which astutely raises the money issue we were ranting about in an instant-messenger chat early one recent morning
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