Yesterday during the long drive from Maasai Mara to Nairobi for me to fly here, my driver Simon told me about his kids. He is unique in that he got angry when his children began to say that "All white people are rich," which leads to the begging and false assumptions that to be white is to be rich, to be close to white is to get rich, blah blah. He was furious. It perpetuates the lie that you address here, the centuries old bullshit that the only way to wealth is through white, acquiescing to white, collaborating with and integrating with white. THAT perpetuates slavery. Begging is precisely what the Black community is doing,to your point, MK, not all but too damned many, and in my humble opinion, it is no different from the barefoot school kids who, upon seeing my driver's car with a white person inside, start screaming for handouts.