History books do not tell about the effects of slavery on the slave owners. They do not suggest that white people’s fears when they see two or more black men walk or drive through white neighborhoods may be the same fears that haunted white Southerners after slave-uprisings such as Denmark Vesey’s plot in 1822 and Nat Turner’s rebellion in 1831. Nor do they describe how being part of the race that has dominated and oppressed Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Native Americans, and other people of color on this continent affects individual members of that race.

Oron South, "The Learning Problem," in The Diversity Factor, Vol. 1 No. 3, 1993, pp. 32-33.