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If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

— Bennie Thompson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up - you can't avoid that if you're a person of color in this country.

— Carrie Mae Weems

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

— Jim Harrison

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

— Kathryn Stockett

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

— Terrence J

Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the 'whites only' and segregated schools.

— Elijah Kelley

During the canvass in the State of Mississippi, I traveled into different parts of that state, and this is the doctrine that I everywhere uttered: that while I was in favor of building up the colored race, I was not in favor of tearing down the white race.

— Hiram Rhodes Revels

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

— Dan Quayle

I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.

— Trishelle Cannatella

✗Opposing Perspectives

I hold that establishing mixed schools will not harm the white race. I am their friend. I said in Mississippi, and I say here, and I say everywhere, that I would abandon the Republican party if it went into any measures of legislation really damaging to any portion of the white race, but it is not in the Republican party to do that.

— Hiram Rhodes Revels