some provocative stuff.  yes, marketers actually talk like this in board meetings. 

 

 

African-Americans say the values of middle class and poor blacks are diverging, and many also say blacks can no longer be thought of as a single race because of greater diversity among their community, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. 

Blacks are also more pessimistic about black progress now than at any time since 1983: only one in five blacks say things are better for blacks now than five years ago, and less than half (44%) say life for blacks will get better - down from 57% saying so in 1986.