discussion, new york professor "p "in search "in searchf" magazip magazine and rmaf" magazip magazine and rmagjrof "men's fitness" magazine. thank you for joining us. r we wap we want we wans specifically within the black community. it's interesting to note, we're alwap always talking about oppressinoppressing us, those we'p we're seeing this in numbers within the black community, interesting enough. >> it is interesting and complicated, the whole class issue across the country. what's happening is the middle class is shrinking, the numbers show, and there's a growing upper middle class and a growing lower middle class and this is affecting the african-american community, too, and the divide of upper middle class african americans and lower middle class, working class african americans. >> what's most interesting is that middle class is very tenuous. >> oh, absolutely. particularly the numbers that they talk about. you're talking about a $50,000 household income. i don't care where you live in the country, most people that are doing that are doing it on two incomes, and when you're doing that in