But another, influenced by hate and prejudice, tried to make it seem like the Jeanes teacher had done something egregious. They asked, “What did you do, get into in an argument on that bus with a white woman?” In recounting her story, the teacher said, “The real lesson to be learned is that beneath the surface of remarks similar to those made by the second person lurks a psychosis capable of building or destroying a nation.”[18]
