premise: But even when I find myself frustrated by their work, I find that I would rather have them doing what they do than doing nothing at all, and if it is not, in the end, greatly advancing black intellectualism or not advancing it as much as they think it is, it is probably not doing the cause of black intellectualism any harm, either, or any more harm than I or any of the rest are doing in our bumbling way.
hypothesis: By studying outliers in their neighborhoods they are in their own way adding to our understanding.