Moving and Changing.

In the Moynihan report the author, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote how the negro communities could improve there way of life. In doing this he pointed out what he thought to be there faults saying: that part of there problems were being a "Matriarchal community" which means the women are at the head of these households. Also he talked about how disorganized they were in there as a whole. DPM went on to talk more about the different ways in which he thought that this specific community could improve. what is interesting about Daniel Moynihan is that he was the New York senator at the time that he came out with his report. The Moynihan report was a very controversial. So much so that there were many activists that set out to prove the Moynihan report false.

Among the activists was a women named Carol Stack, she took it upon herself to move into the "Flats" where she spent an extensive amount of time studying and documenting the way of life. In that time Stack learned that his specific community was not at all ran by the matriarch in fact the family was ran by both parents and also there was a lot of discussion between all of the community. Another lie that Stack discounted was that the negro family was disorganized. The truth was that they were a very organized people. There was a system that they used called the "Swapping". As a community they would rely on each other for different necessities, if one family wasn't able to provide what they needed another family would help and so on. I personally believe that this process of "swapping" is one that we all can learn and live from.

As i mentioned before at the time that the Moynihan report cam out the author Daniel Moynihan was the senator of New York. Given Moynihan's authoritative figure his opinion was was heard and the report became very influential among many. Even though this was obviously a lie and only an opinion the general public took it for truth and did not take any action to form there own opinion or thoughts.