It is still happening, I heard the same sentiment in the rant from Obama’s pastor on Rush's show yesterday. Pastor Wright said that AIDS and drugs were deliberately brought into this country to bring blacks down.
I had a young black man tell me 2 months ago that the government blew up the levees in New Orleans to drown blacks. They believe this crap and it really makes me mad.
“whitey ain’t gonna let ‘em’ make it.”
Forty years ago a black friend of my white husband told us about “crabs in a box”. He said this is what black people did when they saw someone getting ahead in life. They would pull him back down like crabs in a box trying to climb out get pulled back by the others. I don’t know if it is as bad now as it was then.
I do know that when I was on a Mayoral task force regarding street vending entrepreneurship, that a local black college was giving street venders a hard time. Perhaps from years of frustration with being robbed, and put down by the system, the college leaders think that only what is in the mind is safe. Actually creating and producing something can always be taken away.