Growing up black middle class vs. upper and lower/poverty class

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[lordblazer]

Coming from the middle class has its advantages, and you learn how to navigate the professional world. For those who grew up lower/poor its different. I grew up poor and upper middle class. My family overall is upper middle now. But when I was younger until my teen yrs we were quite poor. But both my parents finished college. I'm the first to start graduate school. My sis is the first to get her CPA. Anyway we experience class mobility in a time period when it was steadily decreasing.

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@PamelaJea

you can make up to 200k as a nurse. Nursing is quite a smart choice. If they paid for it to goto law school. I feel your parents would be wasting their money if 50% of lawyers are unemployed/unemployable. It sucks. Anyway you earned what you have that's wassup.

[jonasalden29201]

Whether I agree or not, you have a talent for analysis and explanation. I enjoyed the video. I agree with most, btw...

[djpioneer937]

@Pink. I like your video. I somewhat agree more w/ the females statements. Perhaps your view differs from hers b/c of where you grew up. I've been in Cali for 12 yrs. I've noticed what is considered middle class among Blacks in Cali is different that my hometown (Ohio). What my peers (in Ohio) would consider upper black middle class would be considered low middle-class in Cali. Many middle class areas in the major cities in the Mid-west are adjacent to the ghetto, so they arent that far removed.

[PamelaJea]

I have loans and I and upper middle class .parents refused to pay for school because my major was nursing . I got a car and a house but because I worked for it not because mommy and daddy said here you go.

[dudewaitewhat]

ummm ALL college students are lower class

[ABLux33]

@jblackmel Both.

[nukes27]

Lower class lives paycheck to paycheck. Middle class might have a one to three month buffer which isn't much. Upper middle has maybe a year of financial buffer, whereas Upper class has years and years of buffer and can make money in both a boom and a bust literally renting out their capital.

[willoughby605]

That is so true. I grew up lower middle, or so I thought. But I never had any help because moms had 2&3 jobs. I was never helped with homework, I never even took the SAT's, but I remember all my 'Middle Class" fiends studying for them. Luckily I wound up figuring stuff out and have a career, but what you said that sticks with me is the fact that my wife is from Middle Class, and out child is in this private school in NYC. they give my 7 year old more home work then I had as a 17 year old!

[Spheate]

I'm crying :(