The Role of Public Administration in Understanding Racism... step towards destigmatization of the subject. Coates' essay, "The Case for Reparations" explores how slavery, Jim Crow laws, and housing policy produced widespread inequality within the black community (2014). Coates' views resonated with more than just the black community and caused an outcry. Other essays by Coates, such as “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” depict the Black community as a victim of racist policies stemming from the infamous Moynihan Report (2015). The harmful ideas of the Moynihan Report, such as the idea that the black family is responsible for the ills of the black community, still prevail today. These ideas can be perpetuated and need to be addressed. With this in mind, stereotype threat is the theory that individuals often carry out stereotypes themselves if they are reminded that they have been placed in that category. Steel and Aronson found that African American students performed worse on standardized tests when they were provided with information compared to their White counterparts (1995). Preventing self-perpetuated stereotypes and stereotype threat speech regarding race must take place. Coates's essays are beneficial in advancing the idea that the woes of the black community are due in large part to

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