Blacks have always been measured against an alien set of norms. As a result they have been considered to be a deviation from the ambiguous white middle-class model, which itself has not always been clearly defined.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Blacks have always been measured against an alien set of norms. As a result they have been considered to be a deviation from the ambiguous white middle-class model, which itself has not always been clearly defined." in the context of "Introduction to The Death of White Sociology (1973), p. xxiii" to mean that wisdom is timeless.