The records of a school in Louisville, Kentucky record this as a representative conversation that both Black and White teachers had with students, where the teachers asked the questions and the students were encouraged to express themselves freely:
TEACHER: Now children, you don’t think white people are any better than you because they have straight hair and white faces?
STUDENTS: No, sir.
TEACHER: No, they are no better, but they are different, they possess great power, they formed this great government, they control this vast country. . . . Now what makes them different from you?
STUDENTS: Money!
TEACHER: Yes, but what enabled them to obtain it? How did they get money?
STUDENTS: Got it off us, stole it off we all!”
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
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