Are You Seduced by the Talented Tenth?

You write about w b. De boys and his embrace of what you calld the talented tenth, which you argue is litest, essentially. And now a hundred some years after de boys wrote that, you write, too many of the black elite get drafted into a white adjacent privilege. Suckled by personal prosperity and personal comfort, blinded by the glamor of high society, they become the neo house negroes. I'm curious, were you lost in that ever? Were you seduced by that? I was in it. If you are what polly peterson calls the accomplishers class in new york, you're part of this. That's how wisprimsy...