“Yours is black,” Duke said. Then the student took out a knife and cut into his own skin, and a white student in the crowd did the same. They joined their hands together and held them defiantly in the air. Both bleeding. Both red. Duke laughed and shouted back at them, “I could go across the street to the scientific laboratory and get the biggest, hairiest, dirty rat that you could find and slit that and it’s going to bleed.”
