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May 19, 2010

ANOTHER GENERATION OF SELF HATE....WTF?


Anderson Cooper of CNN has done another one of his controversial and thought-provoking studies. He spoke to students in Georgia as young as 5 to gauge whether kids still have a racial bias at a young age in 2010.

The video is interesting yet disturbing. We have it when you read on...

Parents also talk about the different ways they address race with their young children as part of this "AC360" special coverage "Black or White: Kids on race". CNN.com writes:

A 5-year-old girl in Georgia is being asked a series of questions in her school library. The girl, who is white, is looking at pictures of five cartoons of girls, all identical except for skin color ranging from light to dark.

When asked who the smart child is, she points to a light-skinned doll. When asked who the mean child is she points to a dark-skinned doll. She says a white child is good because "I think she looks like me", and says the black child is ugly because "she's a lot darker."

As she answers her mother watches, and gently weeps.

The study also portrays other children of different backgrounds and races answering the same questions. And also answering questions that show even in kids as young as 5, they have a racial bias of thinking white is smarter, prettier, and better. Peep the video and speak on it. Are there solutions for issues like these? Or is it a hopeless and inevitable situation?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Definitely left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't think its good that I now have dislike for white kids; especially that little boy who said everything negative was "because he's black/brown." But I guess we really need to figure out how to get past these feelings. I'm curious how the other parents felt after seeing their child associate skin tone with character traits.

Will there be a perpetual issue in race relations in the United States? Will we ever look past ones skin tone when either, speaking negatively or associating them with negative behaviors? I hope we can get past this as a nation and collective culture.