When identifying credentials for reports and studies we read, and the words Harvard, Yale, or Cambridge claim accountability, we automatically assume it is undisputable in theory, logic, or truth. All society have been trained, academically, to accept what these Ivy League institutions write as true and expected to reconstruct their lives based on what they read. Well, the Black community must become aware and beware of this type propaganda.

Nationally acclaimed Black organizations quote and notate Ivy League studies in their reports and speeches toward the Black community without gathering data themselves about the Black community. They instead rely on what others write about them rather than gather the information themselves about themselves, all to the detriment of themselves and their children's future.

For example, recently, a report from Harvard, Yale, and Cambridge released its hypothesis of the state of Black men in an article entitled "The Plight Deepens for Black Men," and the public went crazy, especially Black organizations; drawing stats and assumptions from the article. They used these stats to preach to the Black community and to base their problem-solving strategies for the future. The problem with this is obvious, how do they know the stats are true.

Because Black organizations do not conduct raw research for themselves and gather raw data, they can and never will know the true state of Black America and how to solve our problem with racism. In another example, the same university released a more recent study that claims that road rage is now officially a disease, according to scientific studies, studies done by them and for them. With conclusions of this sort, why do people believe in the source?

Road rage is not a disease, it is built up aggravation and frustration, and one does not have to go to Harvard to know this obvious truth. Thus, if we believe in what these studies say about us, how do we expect to solve our problems when according to their scientific research, emotions become diseases. If that is the case, then according to them, being Black must be a sickness.

© June 2006 By CR Hamilton

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