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I have a friend from college that was similar. He left New Orleans and never went back. Going to college was viewed as a betrayal of his race.

[PapaBear3625]

Going to college was viewed as a betrayal of his race.

Or rather it showed into the faces of his acquaintances that they caused their own failures by being unwilling to work and study as hard as your friend. For many blacks, the only path to stable success involves cutting all connections to "da hood", and the losers who would bring them down.