In the 835 hours of conversation with five thousand people in the ward, they asked, Why are you studying us? Wouldn’t it be better to study white folks, since they are the ones who need changing? They wondered what Negro was earnest or naive enough to believe that truth alone would change white people? As if they were blind to the world they had created? Or didn’t know no better than to treat Negroes like dogs? We ain’t specimens!
