Carter G. Woodson This article was originally posted in 2011. We are reposting it in celebration of Black History Month. “Lead the Negro to believe this [that he is inferior] and thus control his thinking. If you can thereby determine what he will think, you will not have to worry about what he will do. You will not have to tell him to go to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, he will have one cut for his special benefit.” Carter G. Woodson (1933) Carter G.