the author is a university of chicago professor cathy cohen. professor cohen, is there an alienation between black youth of today and the older black generations? >> i think that there's a generational side. we've heard, for example, in the words of bill cosby who at times has ranted against part of this generation for not doing i think what he perceives to be kind of the respectable right thing to do to succeed in society. there is a concern that we often hear from older members of black generations about, for example, rap music as i think there's kind of a fundamental divide that sometimes happens across generations. i think the concern here when you talk about blog community is the often young black people feel alienated from a larger dominant or white society. so we assume there's a kind of support system that happens within black committees. when there's a divide even within black communities there's greater concern about where they will find support, where they will resume, they will understand to be their community. >> but that divide fr