Since you are sooooo concerned about the "uplift" of black people, let me offer my best advice to you.

Leave us alone! We do not need nor want your input, ideas, help, nothing. You and your folks have no real intention to actually "help" black people. If you did, it would not have taken 403 years for you to finally decide to do something.

Here's how you solve the "race" problem in America. You see, it is not a "black" problem but a white problem. Talk to your family, friends, associates, co-workers, whomever, and call them on their racism.

Finally, you do not understand the first thing about black people, especially those you consider "successful" --that would be success on your terms, by your standards. You have no idea what those so-called "successful" people think or say about you when you are not around. I do. Do you really think that they are going to tell you that what your folks did and continue to do to us means nothing? I come from a family of doctors, attorneys, engineers, professors (me), etc. Every last one of us has always had to put on a happy false face around you in order to simply live our lives without losing everything cause some, one, or all of you are so deathly afraid of....what? We wear this face because we know you. We know what you are capable of...how absolutely dangerous you can be and have been. We watched and shook our heads in disbelief as you slaughtered a whole continent full of people. Again, we know you better than you know yourselves.

But the key here is to simply stop bugging us. Stop the discrimination; stop the racism; stop the killing. Just stop it.

No need to respond because I simply do not have the time nor energy to try to "whitesplain" this shit to people who have no idea what they're taking about.

Talk to your white folks....not me.