The quote below is from a Newsweek article titled Even Babies Discriminate: A NurtureShock Excerpt.
If “black pride” is good for African-American children, where does that leave white children? It’s horrifying to imagine kids being “proud to be white.” Yet many scholars argue that’s exactly what children’s brains are already computing. Just as minority children are aware that they belong to an ethnic group with less status and wealth, most white children naturally decipher that they belong to the race that has more power, wealth, and control in society; this provides security, if not confidence. So a pride message would not just be abhorrent—it’d be redundant.
WOW!! Proud to be white is abhorrent! Proud to be a minority isn’t? I don’t understand how they could both be true. The article makes some valid points about how children will align themselves with other kids of their own race. I believe that’s only natural. What surprises me is that anyone is surprised by this.
