“Once we only had the land. The white man came and brought us the Bible. Now we have the Bible and they have the land” (Hare, 178). In Brainwashing a Black Men's Mind by Nathan Hare, Hare believes that black society has been brainwashed into thinking that whites are supremacist. Nancy Larrick, The All-White World of Children's Book's (1956), states "...the white child learns from his books that he is the Kingfish [top dog]." (63) Which leads to: How are White people brainwashing a Black man's mind? Hare gave the following example: Controlling and manipulating the minds and bodies of [black] subjects will be best by removing the normal black settings. Hare writes that the color white symbolizes purity and black represents the evil and derogatory referent and that “. .. their brains,..., have finally been washed white as snow.”. At a young age, children are taught to read children's books. “Why is it always white kids?” asked by a five-year-old black girl” (Larrick, 63), as many books seen are only white. Nancy Larrick wrote an article about children's books and argued how children's books only portray white people in the books, while there are many non-white children and white children in the United States who read these books about white children. Larrick also points out that across the country, 6,340,000 nonwhite children are learning to read and understand the American way of life in books that omit them entirely or barely mention them (63), and of the 5,206 children's books, only 394 included one or more blacks, with an average of 6.7% (64). Children's books will not feature a black hero/heroine because in the books, he or she is portrayed as a slave or servant, or better yet as... middle of paper... brainwashed by the White government. During the days of slavery, a University of Chicago history professor, Stanley Elkins, described slave plantation practices as common to a Nazi concentration camp (179). In Carter G. Woodson's The Miseducation of the Negro, it is simply the greatest and most efficient brainwashing system the world has ever known. Now blacks have long struggled to become more and more like whites, hence the quote “washed as white as snow.” Works Cited Hare, Nathan. “The brainwashing of the minds of black men.” Black Fire 1968. Eds. Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal. Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 2007.178-86.Hughes-Hassell, Sandra. “Multicultural literature for young adults as a form of counter-narrative.” The Library Quarterly 83.3 (2013): 212-28. Larrick, Nancy. “The all-white world of children's books”. Review for Saturday 11 September 1965.