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If you believe Kerri Greenidge and a number of other people the Black elite in the beginning of the 20th century were essentially useless because they cared most about their own class privilege and cared about less fortunate Black people as people who would make the race look bad. There is no reason this behavior or characterization of it could not happen again.

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Langston Hughes wrote "The Negro Artist And The Racial Mountain" in part to address Black snobs like this.

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Have you read the essay Hughes was responding to, George Schuyler's, "The Negro Art Hokum"? Fascinating exchange, especially when read alongside Hughes's poetry and Schuyler's novel Black No More.

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May 23Liked by Mark Sussman

Yes, I did, and it held up. I have not read "Black No More" but am interested in it especially since it was deemed worthy of being adapted for a play in contemporary times.

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It is a WILD read.

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