so my 9 yr old niece showed signs of racism today
setting:
Me, Maxine, Erin (5), Katie (9) and her dad Nathan at a Mexican resturaunt
dialougue:
Max- "Erin's had 4 boyfriends since the age of two"
Erin-"Alfredo is my fiance, he just moved to Mexico."
Katie-"He's Mexican?"
Maxine- "Yeah, they were upper middle class and Alfredo's dad got a better job offer back in Mexico."
Katie-"WHO WOULD LIKE A MEXICAN?"
I was FLOORED!
I can't believe she's only nine and she thinks racial differences are a plague.
I don't even know what to say
another situation
Erin was in daycare age 3 and she "loved" this boy ChuChu, a black boy from Kenya.
they were boyfriend/girlfriend and it was sweet.
one day Erin gets home and Max asks her if she and ChuChu are still in love and she said no because "someone told [her] that [she] shouldn't like him cause he's brown"
I really don't have any opinion of racists...you're gonna be who you're gonna be. But to teach your child at a young age that skin color is a difference to be frowned upon...come on people!
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They say that Racism is a ideology, but I think that it is a mental illness.
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