My uncle is a successful black man, but it wasn't easy for him growing up. He was the fourth child of six. When he was 17, he was arrested for assaulting a white male and served three years in jail and promised his mother that when he got out he wasn't ever going back. When he was released, he started selling newspapers getting paid under the table and every week he put some money in his account to begin saving for school. When he was at age 24, he went to a trade school for construction work and when he graduated he bought a property and started fixing the house. A year later he began managing his own newspaper crew, making thousands of dollars a month. Now he is a mailman and still owns his newspaper group and also owns many apartments and houses. He has a beautiful son and wife, and now takes care of his mother and all her bills.