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<p>Passage 2:
The belief that it is harmful to the black community for authors to explore the humanity of our leaders can have troubling effects. At the least, it promotes the belief that our heroes have to be perfect to be useful. At worst, it censors out full investigation of Black life. if our painting of that life are stock and cramped, their colors drab and predictable, the representations of our culture are likely to be untrue. They will not capture the breadth and complexity of black identity. </p>

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<li>The passage implies that black leaders have sometimes been portrayed as being
A) overly sentimental
B) deeply complex
C) above reproach
D) without regret
E) beyond understanding</li>
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<p>I looked for reasoning for the answer (which is C) on the Internet and on CC, but no one made sense.</p>

<p>The reasoning is that this sentence "At the least, it promotes the belief that our heroes have to be perfect to be useful" has the word 'perfect' in it, but that doesn't make sense. "they have to perfect to be useful" is similar to "you have to be God for me to pray to you", or simply "you have to work", or "you are promoting the belief that I have to be perfect to be useful".</p>

<p>What do you think?</p>

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<p>Not that I think this is a bad CR question, but is this official?</p>

<p>Anyways, it should be C because the first sentence showed that even merely “exploring” the humanity of these leaders is “harmful” in many people’s eyes. The author also indicates that these people promote the belief that only perfect leaders are useful. This all conglomerates to mean that the people have inflated their leaders to the point that they won’t tolerate any consideration of their faults. This exactly fits the thought that their leaders are simply “above reproach.” </p>

<p>None of the other choices are directly implicated by the passage. You would be making a tangential and uncorroborated assumption to suppose that any of the other answers are correct, even if they would theoretically make sense. </p>

<p>Remember, for the purposes of the SAT, if the passage doesn’t say it, you don’t know it.</p>

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<p>Yep C is correct because the people make their leaders seem almost god like and without faults “perfect to be useful” since they look at the end from below persay than it is not far fetched to say that the people think that they are beyond reproach or that they are so perfect that they dont have faults and can do no wrong</p>