Poll: Education, Income Segregates Black Community

[my_daroga]

The Pew Research Center and NPR have just released the results of a poll which raises some interesting questions. What's being pulled out most is the idea that class, rather than race, is what segregates America these days; 37% of black people say that the values held by poor and middle class blacks have grown more different over the last five

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[my_daroga]

So anyone with a "touch" of "black blood" (as they used to call it - I'm using historical terms here and don't mean any offense) was considered black.

Yes, but now if black people are categorizing themselves along class or education, and white people are doing the same, that paradigm has shifted.

I am not sure how "classism" is seen as "the new racism." Where I live, there are a *lot* of "po' white trash," and a lot of middle-class blacks...

I'm not sure what you mean to say.

What I mean is that middle class blacks and whites can now say "I'm not racist, I just hate the music/cars/clothes/values of those people." I'm curious about where that falls on the racism line. Some people say that this is a racist position because it's a dismissal of "black cultural identity." If that's not actually true--if black identity is splintered and heterogeneous--it raises questions.