Even The Young Can Be Racist

This article is about a group of psychologists led by Margaret Beale Spencer. Margaret Beale Spencer is a leading researcher in the field of child development and a professor at the University of Chicago. The group of four went to eight different schools and tested 133 children. They went to four schools in the New York City area and four in Georgia. After the students took the test, the psychologists analyzed the results. They noticed that, when asked which doll was bad or dumb, a white child would point to the doll with the darker complexion. As a conclusion, Margaret Beale Spencer said that “All kids…are exposed to the stereotypes. What’s really significant here is that white children are learning or maintaining those stereotypes much more strongly than the African-American children. Therefore, the white youngsters are even more stereotypic in their responses concerning attitudes, beliefs and attitudes and preferences than the African-American children.” Personally I think it depends on how you are raised and what type of parents or relatives you have. For example, some whites have passed their hatred towards people of color down generation after generation. There are also African-Americans who dislike other African-Americans. There are other African-Americans who have the same stereotypes and hatred for whites that whites have for blacks. In my opinion, an individual person might change their ways and not be racist, but racism is never going to stop as long as the human race exists. Hatred in general will never stop. As long as humans exist there is going to be racism, violence, etc.

Watch a video on children and racism here