Phylissa Mitchell

And you walked in with all of those odd preconceptions. And these are actually true stories. I thought that race [was] where people drove in a circle, you know, my father always called this a redneck 500, which is what I called it, and I didn’t understand why the kids at school were very offended, because that’s what my father called it. I didn’t know it was also known as the Indianapolis 500. We were told from I don’t know what source that white people’s hair smelled like dog hair when it got wet when it rained, and so you’re sitting in class on a rainy day sniffing. And these are all true stories, I mean that happened.