The horrible treatment meted out to one of, if not the most prominent Black Humanities scholar in the US, Henry Luis Gates Jr, in which an almost elderly man dependent on a walking stick for mobility was handcuffed by a policeman in an incident involving his insisting the policeman identify himself as the officer challenged him as to whether or not his house belonged to him, an incident in which even President Obama became involved, passed without a comment on this group of people a good number of whom fall into the Gates demographic-Black academics.
Utafiti huo ulifanyika kwa kuhusisha kipimo cha kumulika, maarufu kama scan, ambapo kilitumika kuwamulika wanaume katika ubongo wao pale wanapofanya tendo la kujamiiana na baada ya kumaliza kujamiiana na kufika kileleni na kubaini kwamba, eneo linalojulikana kama cerebral cortex, eneo linalohusika na ‘fikra’ huzimika baada ya mwanaume kufika kileleni.