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“Carruthers made an important addition to [Carter G.] Woodson’s formulation, as he acknowledged that in a system of oppression there are those who are neither the rulers nor their agents, but instead those who, via their own lack of critical knowledge, languish in a listlessness borne of ignorance. They have been transformed into inert instruments via their deeducation and have been taught in a manner to constrain their capacity to conceive of a reality beyond the given, in the hopes that such ignorance would compel inaction and resignation.”

-Kamau Rashid, Jacob H. Carruthers and the Restoration of an African Worldview: Finding Our Way through the Desert