March 6, 2006 at 12:00 am #42048
Jack-J
Participant
I believe it is part of our conditioning. We have always been criticized for how we look so we try to dress better. Many of us resent being thought of as being poor so we try to wear things that poor folk can’t afford regardless if we can afford them or not. Besides, many of us have been poor and it is not a good feeling so when we get some money we want to replace that poor feeling with a wealthy one, so we spend foolishly. I don’t think this is exclusively a black problem, I think it is an American problem. We all do it in our own way.