I love how unaware of race children are

[HBK-aholic]

Jessica's younger brother is 4, and came home from Nursery today telling me about his new friend. We were then watching a TV show with a mixed race girl on, and he told me that's what his friends hair looked like. I asked whether she was white, to which he replied "No, she's a girl". I thought it was quite sweet/innocent.

 

[Coco]

That kid needs an education. Like, now.

 

[stingerlegends]

I agree whole-heartedly with you Mrs. HBK.
Did you know that Racism didn't really become a factor until the 1400's?
Even though slavery existed before then, it was the slave trade from Africa and the Natives from the Caribbean and here in America that started the whole "we are superior to them" attitudes that became so prevalent in people.
"Lies my Teacher Told Me" by James W. Loewen has some great historical evidence of the origins of racism.

 

[Razor]

This is a cute little story. However, it shows the good side of children. There is a terrible, horrible, not very good side of them. I refer you to the Brown Eyes/Blue Eyes Racism experiment.

Martin Luther King Jr. just got assassinated, and a teacher asked her class if they knew what it was like to be anything other than white and be hated for it. They said no. She decided to teach them.

The teacher, Jane Elliot, told all the children in her class that the blue eyed children were horrible. They were stupid and trouble makers. Brown eyed children were the best children, and they got extra recess and got to leave for lunch early. Blue eyed children were forbidden to play with Brown eyed children, because the Blue eyed children were simply not good enough.

What happened at recess? The blue eyed children were being bullied by the brown eyed children to the point of being beat up and taunted and ridiculed.

The next day Elliot switched the rules to see what happened. The blue eyed children were instantly happier, and the brown eyed children were completely taken aback.

Some argue about the morals. I argue that it shows how easily hatred is bred into our children.

 

[Uncle Sam]

That kid needs an education. Like, now.

Sam agrees.

 

[Murfish]

This is a cute little story. However, it shows the good side of children. There is a terrible, horrible, not very good side of them. I refer you to the Brown Eyes/Blue Eyes Racism experiment.

Martin Luther King Jr. just got assassinated, and a teacher asked her class if they knew what it was like to be anything other than white and be hated for it. They said no. She decided to teach them.

The teacher, Jane Elliot, told all the children in her class that the blue eyed children were horrible. They were stupid and trouble makers. Brown eyed children were the best children, and they got extra recess and got to leave for lunch early. Blue eyed children were forbidden to play with Brown eyed children, because the Blue eyed children were simply not good enough.

What happened at recess? The blue eyed children were being bullied by the brown eyed children to the point of being beat up and taunted and ridiculed.

The next day Elliot switched the rules to see what happened. The blue eyed children were instantly happier, and the brown eyed children were completely taken aback.

Some argue about the morals. I argue that it shows how easily hatred is bred into our children.

How's about the Marshmallow Experiment? That's some good shit.

 

[klunderbunker]

Rock on! Love my Hershey brown eyes.

And at the bank the other day I saw a magazine: is your baby racist? How about you let them be a baby and stop making surveys and studies out of them?

 

[HBK-aholic]

Rock on! Love my Hershey brown eyes.

And at the bank the other day I saw a magazine: is your baby racist? How about you let them be a baby and stop making surveys and studies out of them?

LOL.

 

[Murfish]

My mother, the clinical director of a surgery center, encountered a child coming in for surgery. This child was deathly afraid of black people, so my mother escorted her around the center to keep the child calm. The black members of the staff gave her shit about that decision. Fuck that, don't fucking crucify a child if they are unfamiliar with the way someone looks and respond with fear.

 

[Lee]

It reminds me of the south park where they argue about hte flag and the kids think it's because they're killing a guy, not hanging a black man.

 

[Uncle Sam]

How they revise it is funny. The black guy is still being hung but people of all different colours are holding hands around him.