When I was in the 11th grade, we took U.S. History III. It covered post WW2 and on, so a lot of civil rights movement kind of stuff.
To illustrate one of his lessons on Affirmative Action, our teacher starts desrcibing a foot race. The foot face is between a white man, a woman and a black man. The white man rushes out ahead because the woman and the black man have weights shackled to their ankles. The shackles are eventually removed, but they still can not catch up because the white man has such a head start. My friend chimes in:
"Yeah, those shackles? It's called laziness."
Our teacher just says. "You're a real asshole, you know that?"