To answer your question, no, it wouldn’t be a case of black elitism, but elitism in general.

I classified it as black elitism because that what I felt more qualified to comment on, not elitism in general. However, the idea that there would be an all white “Clark Atlanta” in the AUC and one that would rank lower than Spelman and Morehouse is a concept to imagine with great difficulty.

However, you somewhat prove my point about the elitism from Morehouse and Spelman with the nature of your comment. By still rounding up your comment that Morehouse and Spelman rank higher than Clark Atlanta seemingly justifies their eliteness is exactly what I am taking issue with.

P.S. Thank you for 2 and half years later making sure to point out that I had grammatical errors in my piece. Who knows where I would be if you hadn’t pointed that out to me.

My sentiment is, to place any blame upon one institution is a fallacy. Although there is an apparent divide among the schools within the AUC, it is perpetrated by students from all three institutions. Students from Spelman and Morehouse look down their noses at students from Clark Atlanta and vice versa. It’s almost as if you are making it appear as though students from Clark Atlanta are running after students from Spelman and Morehouse begging for acceptance, which is indeed not the case. Students from Clark Atlanta are just as arrogant and believe just as much in the education that they are receiving.

Since on the list of the best colleges and universities in the country Spelman and Morehouse rank significantly higher than Clark Atlanta, I’m not sure it is a case of black elitism as much as a case of a type of educationist type of thinking. In the scheme of things, according to many lists Spelman and Morehouse are classified as better schools. If there was another school in the place of Clark, that was say- all white, but still below Spelman and Morehouse in the rankings of school, would this still be a case of black elitism?

P.S. There were some grammar mistakes within your piece.

I also have been watching Boondocks the TV series in addition to having read many of the comic strips of Boondocks in my local newspaper.

It is most definitely a warning in a subconscious, symbolic manner which is necessary. In many ways, all three of the main characters are the same person.

This is what I get from the show, anyway.

Think of the comic book heroes that sprang up to fight the Nazis. This was a somewhat campy take on ‘heroizing’ black men.

On some odd level the movie worked as a typical ‘war & combat’ film in the feel of the setting; those films were quite popular during the ’50s and were ‘boys’ movies. Many of the war films produced during the period Red Tails happened ring true as–life imitating art (as it was) with black protagonists. American Exceptionalism would like to feel ‘proud’ of extraordinary black pilots, not necessarily black soldiers or black men.

I was quite disappointed with the dream sequences with the Italian signorina and her mother-family, again, not that black soldiers did not end up with available women. Whites always did in the old ‘war’ movies.

The most unrealistic sequence was the whites’ only officers club. I found it totally unbelievable that a black soldier would re-enter the club to work out racial frustration (Juan Williams being insulted by the Newt at one of the endless GOTP’er debates) without ending up body-broken to the point that not only would he never fly again, had he lived, he’d have been disciplined by white officers.

The side effect of Red Tails unfortunately made me realize how much I hated the TV series, Hogan’s Heroes because it made war a deadly / funny / dumb German ‘others’ / Exceptional Americans & tokenized Ivan Dixon as worthy of being included.

And yeah, the character that talked oddly snuff-chucker (character out of Song of the South, Green Pastures, what?) irritated me too.

Thanks for the review. Uppity onward