Yada, yada, yada... I really get sick and tired of you 'let us be individuals... we got to account for ourselves...I we respect ourselves then the white man will repect us". Let me submit to you that all of that is the worst BS that has been handed to Black folks since slavery. First of all a race/class of people have to be united and have some single mind of purpose to collectively overcome and succeed. After that is done, then individual achievement has longevity and benefits the race and society as a whole. Case in point the individual accomplishments of Ben Franklin, George Washington, George Bush(?), etc. has impact for the white community as a whole and benefits them as a whole because first they united and possessed this land. In the Black community, the individual accomplishment of any one Black rarely improves the whole community, why? Becuase there is no sense unity, only the individualism that you talk about. To use the modern day vernacular, it called 'I got to get mine'. Don't get me wrong, personal achievement and success is to be sought and achieved, but in the context of the community, our collective, our whole. The other thing wrong with your train of thought is that it allows for racisim to go unchecked, because we are busy blaming ourselves when the reality is that we don't make the laws we live by, we don't own the financial institutions, heck we don't even own the businesses in our community's save some barber and beauty shops. My friend we must unite and become of a single mind and purpose, then we can an will overcome.