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Educated Negro In his book, The Miseducation of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson addresses many issues that have been and are still prevalent in the African American community. Woodson believed that in the midst of receiving education, blacks lost sight of their original reasons for becoming educated. He believed that many blacks became educated only to assimilate to white culture and attempt to become successful under white standards, instead of investing in their communities and applying their knowledge to help other blacks. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a prime example of Woodson’s argument on “miseducated” blacks. Although Thomas benefitted blacks, community, white, thomas, students, programs, once, knowledge, hampton, graduate, educated, communities, colleges, black, believed, american, african, world, woodson’s, woodson, upon, university, universities, under, themselves, teach, take, supreme, supported, successful, standards, spelman, sight, save, revive, restructure