The following words were for my adolescent sister who had scored well over 1200 on her SAT's:

Even though you have achieved high marks in your academic career thus far despite being a product of the public school system, this doesn't necessarily offer the kind of development or promise that is needed in the black community - especially if our educational system is racked with ineffective and outdated methods - not to mention hidden agendas. If anything, it denotes conformity at the very first levels of a life-long conditioning that will only regiment subservience to a hierarchical system of have & have-nots i.e. a class/caste system. Eventually, you too will  believe transforming it to be utterly impossible and shamefully submit to it...hoping for mercy/kindness from those above who must invariably exploit you to  maintain their own livelihoods. Don't get me wrong sis, I know the countless hours you put in so go ahead and revel in your accolades, but please realize that  there are greater forces at play here.  Eons ago, education was initially for the benefit of all! Today's Everything-for-Me philosophy has corrupted our collective sense of survival and this goes against our more traditionally communal African heritage. Blacks now go to school to better themselves for themselves - singly that is. They wish to leave the HOOD instead of transforming it. Let no one convince you otherwise!

Of course etiquette got the better of me, and so I was a bit more circumspect: 

Hey sis, congratulations! Just remember, your schooling is not just for you, but for all of us. Otherwise, your wits  only go to make other groups of people richer, while yours continue to lag behind. Think on this, perhaps one day you may help save us all.