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…
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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?
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