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I want to tell you about another old film I found during my research.

It's from 1951.

We see a housewife, a white woman.

Everyone in this film is white.

She's sitting in her living room with some neighbors.

They're here to solve a problem.

A chain broke on a swing in a public playground.

Relatively unimportant, but a child might have been hurt.

They sit on couches with no pads, deep in discussion.

They will solve this problem together.

In another scene, a machinist in California approaches his boss, the factory owner, with

the request from the workers.

I'd like to show you the new pension plan that we've dipped.

I thought we had discussed the pension plan previously.

They had, but discussion requires listening, debating, and waving your arms a lot, which

they do in the film.

Like yet friends, they may never like each other, but they'll sweat it out together.

The problem is mutual, much is involved.

Developed within each citizen is the democratic spirit, the democratic method.

Where were they taught the democratic method, you might ask?

Public school.

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