"...it's like child abuse. You can't just cover it up and think it won't affect you. Even if you're not the person who's been abused, if it's your sister or your brother, it's going to come back to haunt you. It's going to have changed the environment that you grow up in and which you grow up into. You really have to contend with the history of this country, and the history of the world. (JR: And how do students of color respond to it?) MC: Some of them get very emotional and very upset, which, you know, is perfectly understandable. Some of them don't want to know about it. Some of them think it's shameful. One of the really important things is teaching that there was resistance. That is equally as important to me as the atrocity part. It's like the Holocaust: people did fight back. Yet we're never told that in school. It was something that was done to Jews or done to blacks and they collaborated in their own oppression. That's really not the case."