I. The Seat of The Trouble

The first chapter of The Mis-Education of the Negro is entitled "The Seat of the Trouble". 
The "Educated Negroes"
Carter G. Woodson, while having a Ph.D. in history from Harvard himself, feels that "educated Negroes" are the "seat of the trouble" in chapter I. 
There are several reasons why Dr. Woodson feels this way.

1.  Educated Negroes are taught to despise African people, history and culture.
2.  Few are taught African/African American history, literature and culture in school.
3. African/African American inferiority is drilled into African American students from preschool-post- 
    graduate education.
4. According to Woodson, most African American students are subjected to educational lynching
5. Northern and Western universities are not designed to adequately prepare African Americans who reside  
    in the American South
6. Schools of theology promote an interpretation of the Bible that justified slavery and justifies segregation
    and peonage
7. Schools of business administration prepare African Americans to be employees and not business owners.
8. Schools of journalism do not prepare to students to own and operate newspapers in the African American
    community
Woodson summarizes the "seat of the trouble" thusly:

When a Negro has finished his education in our schools, then, he has been equipped to begin the life of an Americanized or Europeanized white man, but before he steps from the threshold of his alma mater he is told by his teachers that he must go back to his own people from whom he has been estranged by a vision of ideals which in his disillusionment he will realize that he cannot attain.