It might be said that whites abused blacks psychologically by saying they had achieved nothing as a people, in the past. Yet the fact remains that African-Americans are the most written about, most studied and at times most defended ethnic group in America. In an odd way, blacks have been obsessed over as much as they have been neglected. The sheer number of volumes, monographs, reports and academic and polemical tomes about the Negro Family, Negro Slavery, Negro Religion, the Negro Character, the Negro Mind, Negro Education and the Negro Problem constitutes a curious and lengthy history by themselves....