Established Falsehood

"...I could not shake the image of the destroyed Biko from my mind: an unwary seeker after knowledge, eager to reveal what he was discovering on his own.  He had run into a wall of prejudice dressed up as expert knowledge, armed with the lethal power to destroy any seeker straying off the brightly lit highways of established falsehood.
   Orthodox scholars in authority called ancient Egyptian linkages with Africa controversial.  A code word meaning unacceptable, used by those who still felt they needed to be polite in their hostility.  Those laboring under no such scruples, feeling they could speak their prejudices with no fear of disavowal from anyone with power over them, called the linkages arrant nonsense."
~p. 62 Kmt: In the House of Life, Ayi Kwei Armah