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I’m supposed to be working on something so procrastination says now’s a good time for me to make a thread about this weird phenomenon I’ve noticed among some young black men I know...
One is a very successful doctor whose employees and patients are mostly white. Well all the employees are, but I guess black people are good enough for him to take their money 
He’s now decided to go into life coaching teens. He is specifically targeting white teens, which could be a “follow the money, white parents can afford to pay” thing but I know it’s not. That’s where he wants to live. In a world where black people barely exist at all.
He was getting very little interest in the teen coaching thing at first, and it was really only Black women reaching out for help with their teens, which you would think would tell him something but nope...
All his advertising is him posing with white teens, white cartoon faces, white arms and hands linked together. He’s even said he understands the black plight, he’s just not interested in engaging with it at all (he has two sons with his white wife).
The other guy is much less successful, trying to get a foot in the door in business/entrepreneurship. He does this by attempting to surround himself with successful white people.
He attended a predominantly white church and was volunteering his time with the youth of the church. Again, all white kids. It was clear (at least to me) these parents didnt want him for his mentorship to their kids, he was a glorified babysitter. Still, he never missed a day.
He has a black daughter that, to my knowledge, he doesn’t take care of or see often and a mixed son he does spend time with.
And I guess the moral of this thread is that it’s very sad to see what many black men’s idea of success is and what their worlds would look like if they could help it. Nobody who looks like them around, they’re the exceptional negro who fits in because he’s not like “the others.”
This, to them, not only means they’ve achieved success but that they’ve evolved into better, more cultured versions of themselves. Not even noticing they’re in community (often begrudgingly) with black people who’d run circles around these people they’re dying to be in with.
The entrepreneur was around my brother in law multiple times and literally never talked to him until he found out he worked at Microsoft. It was amazing.
I guess I shouldn’t want them around any black kids anyway, but it makes me sad when I see the successful one posting about coaching these white kids all the time. And that’s what prompted this thread. Ok let me go do some work.
