Others, such as the famed historian Carter G. Woodson, believe the reason goes much deeper. Woodson theorized in his seminal tome, The Mis-Education of the Negro, that “if you can control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go
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