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A teacher has sparked outage after apparently declaring that all white people are racist during a lecture.

A student in the class was reportedly stunned at the lecture on "how to heal the racial divide" and recorded the lesson on her mobile phone.

A white student of the school in Norman, Oklahoma, USA, was instantly offended by the lecture and notes her family has a part-Hispanic background, KFOR reports.

The teacher initially played a video showing a man holding a globe and applying white out over a country and writing his name, illustrating what white people had done to Native Americans.

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According to the mobile phone audio, you can hear the teacher say “to be white is to be racist, period."

The teacher continued and asked: "Am I racist? And, I say yeah. I don't want to be. It's not like I choose to be racist, but do I do things because of the way I was raised?"

The student told the broadcaster she was offended.

"Half of my family is Hispanic, so I just felt like, you know, him calling me racist just because I'm white... I mean, where's your proof in that,” she said.

"I felt like he was encouraging people to kind of pick on people for being white."

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In a statement, Norman Public Schools superintendent Dr. Joe Siano said: "Racism is an important topic that we discuss in our schools.

"While discussing a variety of philosophical perspectives on culture, race and ethics, a teacher was attempting to convey to students in an elective philosophy course a perspective that had been shared at a university lecture he had attended.

"We regret that the discussion was poorly handled. When the district was notified of this concern it was immediately addressed. We are committed to ensuring inclusiveness in our schools."