Our Kind of People by Lawrence Otis
Graham
Veeeerrry Enlightening
Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Marthas Vineyard.
Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An
obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin
complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the
first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-
penetrate group.
Author and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of the nations
most prominent spokesmen on race and class, spent six years interviewing
the wealthiest black families in America. He includes historical photos of a
people that made their first millions in the 1870s. Graham tells whos in and
whos not in the group today with separate chapters on the elite in New
York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta,
Philadelphia, Nashville, and New Orleans. A new Introduction explains the
controversy that the book elicited from both the black and white
communities.
It is terribly unfortunate that the race finds itself separate an d unequal
ironically among itself because of skin color. A diseased mentality, no
doubt seared from slavery. Shameful and sad nonetheless, what will it take
to remedy this tragedy? I say we put an end to the pavlovian reward of the
need to be accepted and educate ourselves to earn the right to be
respected based on character, good deeds and accomplishments rather
than skin color, associations or even organizations like the NAACP.
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