Honorary Americans

In being a new American Negro I think about a lot of old things. What I want the reader to have is a clear understanding of who and what a New American Negro is. The reader needs to understand that a new American Negro is not just me but others fitting the mold and ambition of an American negro wanting to do more than gain wealth to flaunt or horde it. The new American Negro wants to gain wealth and give it, wealth of money, wealth of knowledge, and wealth of time particularly to those Negroes needing it most. If we are to pick our leaders from the future generation we must start planting them now.

A Negro that does not know his story does not know himself. A man not knowing himself cannot love himself or others, instead the Negro finds things to apply to himself so that they may define him. Materialism the curse of western capitalism defines him and his self worth. His job, a white woman, all will be used to define a negro and used to set him apart from other Negroes. It gives him a sense of self worth. In some cases, the elite Negroes allows all three, possession, job, and white woman to define who he is. The elite negro reaches a demigod status of honorary American. To be clear I'll name two honorary Americans that can be used as standard to judge others. Clarence Thomas and Condoleezza Rice. 

Allow me to be clear once again membership to the republican party does not automatically label a Negro a uncle tom, traitor, house Negro or any of the sort. I for one do not believe in such terms. These negroes do not believe themselves white (as far as I can know inside anyones mind) instead they believe that they transcend race and the traditional term of "black" or "Negro" as used to describe someone of low class standing and little political and social influence. These elite Negroes, honorary americans, or super Negroes as they will be henceforth called feel far removed from the American Negro image that America sells around the world. Either through money, or through marriage, or through job they feel that the worries and concerns of Negroes do not concern them, or at least enough so that they bring attention to them, rather they want to bring attention to their own success. 

What is worth noting about the two honorary American examples given in this essay is their own personal experience with  discrimination. Having lived through the age of MLK and having experienced discrimination and having to often out preform the Americans around them we can assume that the Super Negroes are under no illusion about how they are seen in American eyes, or in the very least what it means to be a Negro in America. 

So what is it that makes these Super Negroes who were sometimes the only Negroes in their class, the first Negro in their family to graduate college to then turn away from the race and reach for all the symbols of success in capitalist America? Is it their shame, does one need to self explain why they made "success" and so many others did not. Or is there a "selling of the soul" needed to have so much success in America? Does the Negro need to seem less threatening to America to have certain positions of prominence prestige and promise. Are the super Negroes simply doing what is needed to survive in America. Racial unity isn't exactly a hall mark of strength in the black community. Can the Super Negroes be blamed for turning and embracing American wealth and power? Do not so many Americans do the same toward their fellow countrymen? So what it is, is it shame, is it greed, is it the American way of life?

It is a combination of all these things but for the Negro one thing is very clear and very sure. We cannot afford more super Negroes. My generation must not produce the kind of money loving, status worshipping,American greed capitalist that continue to take from us and give little back. It is true that a rising tide lifts all boats but we have serious leaks in our boat and we wont get any higher until our leaders, until our elite until, our speakers of our race help mend the leaks that plague us as a community and as a Nation.