'I explained that racism was a system of lies, of unfair standards, designed to make White people seem better than they really were, and make us seem worse than we really were.' | ✍️ Professor Keon West writes for MetroOpinion
Studies by Professor Adam Rutland in the UK and by Dr Danielle Perszyk in the US found that children as young as three or four show ‘strong and consistent pro-White bias’ and a significant relative antipathy toward Black children.Nor is this bias simply limited to other children.
Sometimes my wife and I would respond that we liked dark skin and brown eyes. Sometimes, we would patiently explain to our friends why this was a racist thing to say. Sometimes we’d just explain it to the children after the person had left. Sometimes, we were too tired. There were many such conversations.
This isn’t even mentioning the television shows or online streaming services that tell them, in no uncertain terms, that Black people are ugly. One example is a cartoon – Dina and the Prince – that was viewed more than 400,000 times on a YouTube channel aimed at children, before it was removed. Many families in the study avoided the conversation because they felt the children were ‘too young’, or because it just ‘had not come up’.Long before my children could say their first words, they were already being taught that light skin was beautiful and desirable, that pale eyes were attractive, and that straight hair was a sign of superiority.
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