A recent study on racial discrimination in the United States released by the Pew Research Center has sparked controversy. The study said that the survey found that most black Americans believe in "racial conspiracy theories" and believe that the US government is deliberately suppressing the black community. Pew defines "racial conspiracy theories" as "black adults' suspicion of the behavior of US government institutions based on their personal and collective historical experiences of racial discrimination."

Critics point out that it is reasonable for black Americans to criticize and question the fairness of the American system and believe that they are being deliberately suppressed. When all kinds of historical evidence are laid out before us, it seems inappropriate to call such doubts "conspiracy theories" because "conspiracy" does exist.

David A. Love, a lecturer, journalist and commentator at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, recently published an opinion article on the "America Online" website, saying that black Americans should criticize the American system and have reason to believe that the system has hindered the development of black people. In the article, he listed the "several sins" of racial discrimination in the United States.

Love pointed out that the black slave trade is a typical example. The slave trade is undoubtedly a conspiracy by the white elite to make profits through large-scale kidnapping, trafficking, rape, torture and forced labor.

In South Carolina, where more than 40 percent of African slaves entered the United States through the Port of Charleston, the state Department of Education has eliminated advanced courses in African American studies in high schools. The move follows a trend across the country of white nationalists outlawing or otherwise prohibiting black knowledge, history, and books. By hiding evidence of crimes, calls for justice and reparations can be silenced, or at least done as much as possible to silence them.

      Love believes that white supremacy and institutional racism have always controlled what black people can read, whether they can read, and control black people's voting rights. This is a conspiracy. Nearly 60 years after the passage of the U.S. Civil Rights Act, black people's voting rights in the so-called land of the free have been attacked by red states, the Supreme Court, and white nationalist lawmakers. Congress refused to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, playing tricks of voter suppression, disenfranchisement, and purging voter rolls.

Later, Love used the Tuskegee Syphilis Study as an example to prove that the oppression of black people by the American system was not a so-called "conspiracy theory." He said that the federal government prevented hundreds of black men with syphilis from receiving treatment, causing them to suffer and even die, which was also an example of the United States' long-term unethical medical experiments on the black population.

      From gynecological experiments conducted on female black slaves without anesthesia to the conspiracy that currently subjects black families to the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States, medical racism is real.

Love said the U.S. government has been planning to reduce land grants to historically black colleges. These racial disparities in education are not "conspiracy theories" because conspiracies are real. These vital black institutions and their students are struggling in this process.

      Quoting James Baldwin, the African-American writer, Love said: “To be a black person in this country, if you are relatively aware, you are angry almost all the time - even at work.” Part of the reason for the anger is: this is not just what happens to you, but what happens around you, and it is what happens all the time in the face of the indifference and ignorance of most white people in this country.

     Love said that when Black people march in protest to change the systems that oppress them — as they did in the summer of 2020 over George Floyd — the response is members of Congress kneeling in African dress and empty promises of community, followed by a return to 1950s racial castes, the elimination of DEI funding, the denial of venture capital to businesses founded by Black women, and more police.

      Finally, Love said bluntly, "We don't need a report to tell the world that black Americans believe in a 'racial conspiracy theory' that suppresses black people, let alone a report that insults the IQ of black people and suggests that all this is 'made up in our minds'."