''I share these two stories as examples of attempts to stifle personal greatness. Folks, liberals (black and white) have been stifling black American individuality and greatness for years while deceptively shrouded in compassion. In reality, liberals' true attitude towards independent blacks is, "Who the "H" do you think you are? How dare you achieve success without us."
A young married couple, Paul and Nancy were neighbors of mine back in the seventies. Nancy was extremely excited. An unexpected opportunity arose for her to attend college. This would broaden her horizons and enable her to pursue opportunities beyond her current minimum wage jobs. Paul was dead set against it. He confided in me, "I'm afraid if she gets educated, she may not want me anymore." I thought, "So rather than allowing Nancy whom you profess to love to be all she can be, you would prefer to keep her down."
In the eighties, I was a member of a team of six artists at a Baltimore TV station. They hired a new kid. Jeff was talented, enthusiastic and ambitious. Whenever someone came in the art department with a request and our supervisor was unavailable, (while other artists ignored them thinking it's not my job) Jeff stepped up and took care of them. Jeff's attitude caused tension between him and our union. While the union could not nail Jeff for doing anything outside of the restrictions of our contract, the consensus was he was too friendly with management and eager to do things beneficial to the company. The real conflict was Jeff's nature drove him to excellence and our union encouraged group mediocrity. http://www.newswithviews.com/Marcus/lloyd105.htm