"It is simply calling a spade a spade.
It is saying in plain English: that a
separate Negro school, where children
are treated like human beings, trained
by teachers of their own race, who know
what it means to be black in the year
of salvation 1935, is infinitely better
than making our boys and girls doormats
to be spit and trampled upon and lied to
by ignorant social climbers, whose sole
claim to superiority is ability to kick
'niggers' when they are down."

- W.E.B. Du Bois

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