In the introduction to her new book, ""Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children," Lisa Delpit describes her response when Diane Ravitch asked her why she hasn't spoken out against the devastation of public schools in her home state of Louisiana and the efforts to make New Orleans the national model. She explained to Ravitch that she has been concentrating her efforts where she feels she can make a difference: working with teachers and children in an African American school. She says her "sense of futility in the battle for rational education policy for African American children had gone on for so long . . . that I needed to give my "anger muscles" a rest." This article presents an interview with Delpit wherein she discusses major issues from her book, with an emphasis on the relationship between racism and special needs.