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Transcription: [00:32:40]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
--just, you know, I'm not just a race person. I like to see any human do his thing, you know, or her thing, whatever, you know.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I try to be broad-minded, you know. Not, "Is he white? Or is he black?" It don't matter, it's a human, you know.

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
[[Laughing]]
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
If it's a smart white, good. If it's a smart black, good. If they not smart--
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
And your, your little girl, she feels the same way?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Practically. Of course, I'm trying to learn her to not to be. I'm having a little problem with her, though. Y'all not from Jackson, are you?
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
No.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Well she goes to a mixed school which was all white, a few years back. She had most opportunities--
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
and I had a BIG wrestle to keep her there. She have a boyfriend who's in the Navy,
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
and he told her if she stayed-- She goes to Wingfield High. I don't know whether you heard that name or not, but that's one of our best, better schools.
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{Unknown voice 1}
Better.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
And, uh, she wanted to leave and come back to the all black.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
And at first, I was gonna quit. I said "No, I'm not." I just put my foot down and said, "You gonna stay at Wingfield."
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Cus, see, At Wingfield they do this new-- Uh, the ladies-- I wouldn't say arithmetic, but it's in the math--
,
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Mathematics.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Mathematic, mathematic [[?]] but it's higher.

[[Cross Talk]]

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Yes, I know.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Can you call it math?

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Computers. Computers?

[[Cross Talk]]

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Calculators. Sure.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Computers.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
See, she can get that at Wingfield, but couldn't get that at the Black schools
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
So I told her I didn't want her to go.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I said, "If you can get the ladies, then you can go."
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
But if they just sit there and get the--

But if I went over they, I would tell them, "Why you all-- Why they can't get it? Why?"
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence and Pearl Bowser"}
Uhm huh.
Right.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
If one school had it? No! It's supposed to get what the other one got? So why we can't get it?
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Uhm huh.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Right.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I wouldn't let my child. I didn't want her to go there.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
She was talkin about it with one of her teachers, and she told her teachers that I didn't want her to go there. And she was exactly right cause I made a mistake --
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Transcription Notes:
Not sure about "practically" at 00:33:12 Not sure about spelling of "Waynefield" I believe it should be "Wingfield", which is in Jackson, MS. There is a Wingfield H.S. in Jackson, no Waynesfield or Waynefield.