The Origin Moment of a Tulsa High School Debutante

John Ronson: Whether or not the interview subjects who have a vested interest in not being on a national John Ronson story revealing that they were gigantic racist 30 years ago, I will just say this. Tulsa is one of the worst places for racism. It's still segregated in most ways. And so regardless of what they might say, she was told probably by her teachers in school in Reagan's America at that time that black men were crack-addled rapists. That's what she would have been raised thinking.