Was the author really pointedly trying to avoid generalizations? His last paragraph suggests, at least to me, that he's more interested in building a new narrat

Was the author really pointedly trying to avoid generalizations? His last paragraph suggests, at least to me, that he's more interested in building a new narrative of the "archetypal black entrepreneur". > We have a responsibility to command an image of the ‘archetypal Black entrepreneur’ which represents the majority of us, and not just the minority. By realigning the story from stereotypes and struggles to the significant amount of positive movement in the Black entrepreneurial space — and acknowledging the fact that many of us come from backgrounds set up for success, we can better serve our collective advancement. Let’s move away from the emphasis on Black suffering, and make the celebration of Black excellence — the new normal. In my opinion he's looking to replace one generalization with another rather than do what you're suggesting and push people towards telling stories of all individuals and perspectives. He's also doing this by zeroing in on a single statistic, emphasizing it's inverse, and then using that to build a case that more black people are living in his situation than are living in poverty. Unfortunately I have a hard bias against anyone who pulls numbers out of context in order to build a narrative. It also troubles me that taking a deeper dive into his source's findings on the lived experience of many African Americans shows that the single statistic he made up (based on the inverse of the source's findings) is fairly misleading. In my opinion he did the same thing that Milo Yiannopoulos did on Bill Maher. Milo said trans people are disproportionately involved in more sex crimes than the rest of the population. He said this while arguing in favor of the North Carolina bathroom law. Yes, what he said was true, but he failed to mention that trans people are the victims in the vast majority of those cases. While we can "quibble over the numbers", I think its dishonest to take data and twist it to push a narrative -- no matter the point being made. That is in large part what frustrates me with this article -- I find it paints a dishonest picture of black wealth in order to push a generalization of black entrepreneurship favorable to the author's own lived experience. While I'm largely in agreement with what you -- and Adichi -- have to say with regards to the dangers of the single narrative, I am not at all convinced the author's post was written in that spirit, considering he feels we have a "responsibility to command an image of the 'archetypal Black entrepreneur'".