• The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

    Henry Louis Gates: The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.
    "The biggest brother" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.