When the opportunity has been present, the black bourgeoisie has exploited the Negro masses as ruthlessly as have whites. As the intellectual leaders in the Negro community, they have never dared think beyond a narrow, opportunistic philosophy that provided a rationalization for their own advantages.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "When the opportunity has been present, the black bourgeoisie has exploited the Negro masses as ruthlessly as have whites. As the intellectual leaders in the Negro community, they have never dared think beyond a narrow, opportunistic philosophy that provided a rationalization for their own advantages." in the context of "E. Franklin Frazier, The Black Bourgeoisie (1955), p. 236" to mean that wisdom is timeless.