tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7166980007894567511.post789342564721406697..comments2023-11-05T01:47:31.719-07:00Comments on Black Bird Press News & Review: dr. nathan hare emails marvin x on the true history of black scholar magazinewww.blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00807053122116593028noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7166980007894567511.post-2596381991420401022017-07-20T12:42:31.903-07:002017-07-20T12:42:31.903-07:00Greetings, Prof. Woodford,
Yes, everybody who gets...Greetings, Prof. Woodford,<br />Yes, everybody who gets a Ph.D. produces a dissertation under supervision as an academic requirement but, if and when it gets published, that is mostly all that many will ever publish, as it is essentially an exercise in research under the direction of some professor as major advisor (and his or her ideas).<br />As for not talking about me, Bob’s willing of The Black Scholar to his daughter or anybody, as I’ve read, says enough. We founded the journal under the Black World Foundation, of which I was president. I suppose it no longer exists. When I left I didn’t try to hurt tinker with anything there (people suggested I sue), once I was gone, as I had hopes for a better life and had better things to do and didn’t want to hurt The Black Scholar any more than I had to, certainly not to kill it. It’s ironic that many of The Black Scholar clerical staff opposed Al Ross for the simple reason that he was white, but it was Bob Chrisman who made it impossible for Al Ross to continue and also in time for me, though I tried. I’d stayed on in part because of the black/white thing myself. In our minds – and in Bob’s I thought then -- The Black Scholar was beyond our conception of ourselves as individuals. We founded it under the Black World Foundation as a nonprofit entity. The staff thought it belonged to black people as a whole. <br />If Al Ross had been black and/or Chrisman had been completely white (his father was white but Bob tried to live as an African American, though his brother was known to pass), I would have left with Al. By chance I decided to return to school and to leave at the end of that. <br /> Plus I had dreams of wedding psychology and sociology toward a deeper understanding of the family decay I saw in the face of the strong black family mythology popular among black intellectuals after the Sixties, fueled by a misreading of the so-called Moynihan Report, if they read it at all in too many cases. The very first sentence in a report aimed to get black males into the labor force read: “Racism has produced a terrible tragedy.” The report then went on to present some of the highest correlations yet known to social science, such as the difference between the “illegitimacy rate” of the white female and the black female had gone up and down with the difference between the unemployment rate of the black male and the whire male, and there had never been any more difference between the fertility rate of the black female and the white female had gone up and down witth the difference in the unemployment rate of the black male and the white male. (I may have mixed the variables of fertility and unemployment). The black intellectuals said he had hurt the image of the black family by referring to it by the metaphor used previously by W.E.B. DuBois and E. Frankln Frazier: “matriarchy” (referring to the broken patriarchy, as there has never been any anthropological evidence for the existence of a matriarchy in the sense that women as a group ruled men as a group. They may have traced their ancestry through the mother – which makes all good sense – instead of the father; i.e. matrilineal but not matriarchal except in mythology. You also had mermaids in mythology and a myriad of other things}. <br />Then feminists piled on with the charge that Moynihan had blamed the black woman for the black family’s plight by using the long accepted metaphor “matriarchy” to describe the situation of the black male’s relative psychosocial functioning in the socioeconomic circumstances of a patriarchal racism. <br />In my own case, my position on these matters, in the face of conventional intellectual wisdom, prevented me from ever getting back on a regular fulltime faculty, let alone a tenure track, anywhere in the hallowed grounds of the United States of America, including the kingdom of Africana, let alone an HBCU.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18005382323435859424noreply@blogger.com