Faces: University, Prisons. Not the same.
Anonymous, Lincoln, NE. I teach Native Studies (among other things) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and I volunteer with the Native groups in the state...
Ignorance of history, convenient or willful?
Emily Green-Cain, Nashville, TN. I grew up in the city where James Lawson led teach-ins for non-violence that led to sit-ins throughout the Southeast. No...
You’ve got to be carefully taught
Kathleen Z. Minneapolis, MN I enjoyed your talk at the Guthrie so much. I listened to it again yesterday and was disappointed the man from...
You Have To Be Carefully Taught
Leigh Slater Hagerstown, MD We are not born hating people who are different from ourselves. Like the song from South Pacific says, hatred is taught,...
You can’t be friends with her
Rosie W. Tucson, AZ When I was in the third grade in the sixties, my best friend and neighbor was Joyce, who was Japanese. She...
Apropos of the ‘subconscious racist’ quote.
Margaret Middleton Little Rock, AR Lyric by Oscar Hammerstein, from “South Pacific”. You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late, Before you are six...
You’ve got to be carefully taught
Katherine Charlotte, NC When I heard this line in the play “South Pacific” 50 years ago, I realized racism was not a natural instinct.
You have got to be taught
Margaret Middleton Little Rock, AR Submitted via NPR’s Talk of the Nation Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, from “South Pacific”: Apropos of the ‘subconscious racist’ quote....
