I can't believe someone is actually asking this question in this day and age. It's not just racially ignorant, it's just ignorant all the way around. Even if you are a stereotyping a-hole, you should at least consider all of the professional athletes, actors, song artists, musicians, and famous comedians who have a great deal of money. And if you want to be more educated and not just believe that black people can only be athletes, musicians, comedians, etc.-Jim Crowe South ended a while ago. There was a considerable stretch of time after slavery when black people were forced into self contained impoverished communities and a very small percentage lived outside of those communities and/or made money. But look at Chicago or Harlem, in the teens, the twenties and thirties, when racism was a horribly viscous and tragic reality, and you still had thriving communities of young, affluent and cosmopolitan black families in those areas. Now, with further barriers being broken down by the civil rights movement, there are far more affluent, cosmopolitan black families. Sure racism is still an ugly part of our society, but there are many black families with large amounts of money: bankers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, stock brokers, the list goes on and on (basically the same careers that rich white, or any other color, have). While it may not be common to have mostly black private schools (not sure if this show does, I didn't watch it that much) there are many schools that once had to be all black and have remained so mostly by tradition. You have many young, affluent black children going to certain universities that had been legally blacks only and they remain mostly black, not by law, but because their parents and grandparents and so on went there.
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