These new schools revolved around twin goals: to keep white and Black kids from becoming friends and making babies and to teach those white kids a newly invented gospel of the Delta, that there were good whites and bad whites, many more of the former than the latter. That was the creation myth of a new land stripped of everything that had happened since those first prehistoric native monocrop hunters moved south into the violent but nutrient-rich forest swamps. Generations of white Delta children have now been taught this myth from birth, including Jeff Andrews and me.
