Black students of “society” Many Black students have gone to America’s colleges and taken up the social sciences, with the view of bettering their understanding of themselves and the world. Many have undertaken these studies with the intention of “helping my people.” Later on they become involved in various programs said to be designed to uplift the poor and uneducated. With failure after failure with the tools provided by the social sciences of the white man to solve any social problems, there is growing awareness among Black students of “society” that there is something wrong in what and how we are taught. The principles of the social sciences are supposed to be based on an understanding of the nature of man. However, the social scientists would be the first to admit that their disciplines are incomplete, as their knowledge of man is not perfect. But the social sciences, in America, ultimately rest on assumptions which cannot be proven true. On such assumption is that all people have a common origin or God. Assumption: all people have a common origin or God One’s understanding of a society can be no better than one’s grasp of the nature of the people constituting that society. One does not know man’s nature unless one knows man’s origin. To come to know man’s origin is to come face to face with man’s God. It is at this point that the social scientist backs off. He claims that all answers pertaining to man’s origin is beyond the realm of the knowable. God, if He exists, is in the realm of the unknowable. He reasons that the ultimate source of truth and false, good and evil, cannot be known. Therefore, he cannot accept any presently proposed standard said to be divine to serve as the unifying base of society. Generally, he regards religion as important only in certain secondary respects: that it satisfies certain mental and emotional needs. He sees religion as irrelevant to the economic, political, educational and social realities of the modern world. Of course, there are scholars who are exceptions to this picture. However, this writer can say that almost every socials scientist he has met fits this description. They regard their religion as a private matter; a matter of conscience, not necessarily related to the real problems of life nor to the God governing the universe. Some of these white social scientists even claim to be atheists. Black students study under such people.
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