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We also overestimate who ''our" people are. As previously noted, class is beginning to usurp race, and money is the bottom line. Middle class blacks who "make it" on their own and are better off than poor whites, are satisfied to sit tight, just glad to be surviving. They have no incentive to sacrifice their personal gains by taking on the monumental task of dismantling the racist system they have managed to circumvent. As we have all agreed, blacks are not monolithic, although they actually are all in agreement about the white power structure being their "opponent". How they cope with this depends on how much they identity with their race and how obligated they feel to align themselves with a black coalition intent on toppling a formidable system where they, themselves, have managed to become a "have" instead of a "have-not". Black unity is a dream hoped for, but it shows signs of drying up like "a raisin in the sun".

Oh OK. I just did a search on this site for info on the Seminole Wars, and the only results point back to the conversations we had here. I did a quick search on Amazon for books on the subject and they all a appear to be written by white men. When I get a chance I'll research a good book on the subject and add it to the website. It is too important an aspect of Black history not to have a book on the subject here on the site.