I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but rent Cadillac Records and watch the reaction Howlin Wolf has to Muddy Waters. He tells him to grow up (in some fashion) and be a mana and stop waiting on whitey to do anything for him. It was the best scene in a movie I have seen in a long time.
Sounds like something worth watching. Truly, the sentiment was once common in the Black community. During segregation and even before, there was a sense of representing one’s race in an honorable way. Something was lost along the way.