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- When you say you don't want to have any discussion on race,
when you say, "We don't want white children to feel bad."
You know, when I first heard that, I thought,
"Well, my God, where were you in the 1950s and '60s
when I was in school?" [Angela chuckles]
Because I had to sit through honors English classes
reading Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn ,
with the liberal use of the n-word.
And all of my white classmates sniggling and giggling, right?
I had to sit through Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind .
Nothing about education is about
just making you feel comfortable.
Sometimes we learn the most in the midst of discomfort.
- Angela: Watch more Why Race Matters online
and on the PBS app on your phone, tablet, Roku,
or any other streaming device.