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"Coming across the famous passage in which Douglass quotes the slavemaster Auld, Miss Williams [Ed: a 13 year old black student] was startled by the words: “If you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there will be no keeping him. It will forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master.” The situation seemed to her familiar, and her essay was a blistering indictment of the failures of the largely white faculty of her school: “When I find myself sitting in a crowded classroom where no real instruction is taking place I can say history does repeat itself.”"
And for people who feel icky reading TNR, here is a link to the HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/jada-williams-stude...