If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.
It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.
The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.