The black 1 percent weaponize community rhetoric for individual gain.

Evidence

We also have to understand that some black people may act in ways that are not in the interest of other, more vulnerable black people. The 2007 Pew study demonstrated that most black folk aren’t thinking about community in the same way. The top 1 percent of African Americans who hold on to ideas of black community often do so to leverage that idea for individual gain. They want a piece of the economic pie. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 337

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Coleman’s point that social capital benefits can accrue to specific members unevenly; also reverses the assumption that group solidarity equalizes.