Revisiting Racecraft with Barbara and Karen Fields
The Dig
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The Miseducation of a White Person
Karen: This is every American's miseducation and every American child's racecraft. But but look at what else it is. An Oxford, Mississippi, an old myth which still lives in infamy. It is also an illustration of a white person who is happy because her child is growing up free of racism. And that's what stimulates the chuckle. That's what makes it funny to her. She's teaching him as a friend of mine, an email friend, I only know him from email correspondence.
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