DAMAGE DONE: John McWhorter: The Origins of the ‘Acting White’ Charge: School integration yielded a disturbing by-product: a psychological association between scholastic achievement and whiteness. “Certainly, the underfunded one-room schoolhouses in the old South had to go. Something else that has to go too, though: the idea that any black student is only being properly served if white kids are studying next to him. That misimpression, fostered by the school-integration movement, has yielded a disturbing by-product: a harmful psychological association between scholastic achievement and whiteness.”