Thanks for reading and providing great insight. Those are some profound excerpts. I agree many of us use education to check boxes but couldn't use that very education to get ourselves out the box. We lack an ability to apply our intelligence (beyond education) to progress oneself and others. I may have to check out more from this author because he is speaking some truth. He is reminding me of Carter G. Woodson in The Miseducation of the Negro. I call many of us "good negroes" because of that book. Peace.