ABOUT THE BLACK THINK TANK

[Dr. J. Hare]

Our logo is a "cylinder tangential to
a sphere. It is the only case where
the equality between the height of
a cylinder and the diameter of the
circle at the base, which is also that
of the inscribed sphere, is of
particular interest. This figure is the
one that Archimedes chose as an
epitaph, because as he said, it
represented his “most beautiful
discovery." Diop contended that
Archimedes had (somewhat in the
tradition of Christopher Columbus)
discovered; something that had
existed long before it was
discovered "an established
theorem discovered 2,000 years
before him by his [African]
predecessors."
-- from Cheikh Anta Diop's
Civilization or Barbarism: An
Authentic Anthropology.
(Translated from the French by Yaa-
Lengi Meema Ngemi, Edited by
Harold J. Salemson and Marjolijn
de Jager, Lawrence Hill Books,
1991, p.242. First published by
Presence Africaine, Paris, 1981).











The Black Think Tank
The Place Where People Click



JANUARY 21, 1979

It was an age of black intellectual focus on asserting the “strengths of the black family” and denying
“pathology” in the face of the family and social decay exploding upon our people. Speaking out in Ebony,
we cried that “our confusion, our negligence, in this area is both curious and shocking, because the
relations between male and female are the most intimate and basic of all human entanglements and the
most crucial for the subjugation of a people.“

“….We propose that we begin to establish black love groups (psychological workshops group therapy) to
begin to elevate black love groups to the status of a social movement. In this way we may begin to iron out
our differences and our difficulties and perhaps to arrive ultimately at a workable solution.”

The interest was great, but without a movement organization, the black male/female schism and the
displaced power struggle between the black male and black female soon were complicated and sidetracked
by the inability of the white-dominated feminist movement then raging to answer the critical questions it
had raised for the idea of black female liberation, compounded moreover by the black male-dominated black
consciousness movement’s inability to incorporate black women’s liberation as an integral part of the black
movement beyond simplistic and counterproductive mimicry. The black male/female relationship movement
was also quickly trivialized by the mainstream publishing industry and related hip hop. It is no wonder that
black males and female are finding it increasingly hard to get along together.

But now that we know, now that the dust has settled, we must return to the unfinished revolution that is
tied so inextricably to the resurrection of the black family and the reclamation of the inherent and
indigenous right and ability to rear our children, to reconstruct the core of their personalities and socialize
them to become what we want them to be for the leadership and future of a proud and glorious people.

It is said it takes a village to raise a child, but in the process we will find it take a revolution to raise an
autonomous village whose children are young, black, gifted and free.



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The Black Think Tank was cofounded by Drs. Nathan and Julia
Hare in 1979 to promote a movement for better black
male/female relationships but quickly took on other matters: the
miseducation of the black child, spearheading a rites of passage
movement for black boys, overhauling the public schools, and
educating every black man, woman and child.