nned brother who was ironically in the same predicament. Simultaneously, the darker-skinned slave began harboring hatred and resentment towards the lighter-skinned slave because of the privileges granted and the superiority complex in which the lighter-skinned slave began processes. "Not surprisingly, both whites and 'house niggers' came to consider the dark-skinned 'field niggers' to be less civilized and intellectually inferior" (Graham 7).Greater opportunities were afforded to the lighter complexioned typically mulattoes because of their maneuverability within both races. However, often time's mulattoes would chose to separate themselves completely from the Black race and operate solely in the white "superior" race. With these opportunities, the lighter-skinned mulattoes formed the Black Bourgeoisie. This was and presently is an elitist network of and for the exceedingly successful Black upper class, and is exclusively for the lighter complexioned.
             Prerequisites were constituted, and these regulations were and are adhered to with the diligence of religion. Admittance was granted only after the passing of a series of divisive tests. The blue veins test, the placing of one's arms inside a brown paper bag, the standing next to a light-brown painted door and the combing of one's own hair with a fine toothcomb without the comb getting entangled in the hair. After the passing of these requirements and the individual having achieved a certain economic status access was permitted. "All of my life, for as long as I can remember, I grew up thinking that there existed only two types of black people those who pass the brown paper bag and ruler test and those who didn't, those were members of the black elite and those who weren't" (Graham 1).
             Beliefs, customs, and ideologies usually persist longer than institutions in which these concepts were constructed. After the abolition of slavery as a...