Created Equal: The Documentary

 

Don't miss Created Equal, the book of the same name by Michael Pack and Mark Paoletta. It is composed of the documentary's transcripts. 

An excerpt: My grandfather understood that education was the key because he didn't have it, and that's what had held him back. He wasn't going to let that happen to his boys. And he said that he went to third grade, but school was three months out of the year because you had to work. Education wasn't some social experiment. It wasn't a lot of this drivel you hear today. It was the key. It was something that had to be done. Reading, writing, arithmetic, and, by golly, you are going to learn it. You were never going to miss a day of school. And he made that very clear. Remember now, I am seven years old, my brother is six, and he says to us, "You are going to go to school every day. And if you are sick, you are still going, and if you die, you will go. I will take your body for three days and make sure you're not faking." And he meant it. The thing about it is, it's one thing if somebody says that and you think they're exaggerating. He wasn't that kind of guy. In your mind you knew he had laid down a marker. You were going to go dead or alive. Well or sick. And that's the way we went.