Black children and white children learn self hatred and racism at a very early age.

A child who believes he is inferior, becomes an adult who believes the same. The one sided media images and history that's taught in most schools only reinforces lies.

Many parents, with the help of the media, pass along racists beliefs and sterotypes to their children at a very early age, creating a false sense of superiority based on skin color, or a lack there of.

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[Theodora]

It broke my heart to see this. After all this time and after all we as a race have done and accomplished for the past fifty years, why are our children feeling about themselves the way that they do?
This hurt me to my heart because recently I took a good look at myself (figuratively speaking) and found that I never truly seen myself as black, and that I have to be comfortable with my blackness in order to be truly whole again.
These poor brainwashed children are well on their way to becoming guilt ridden adults-even the ones wearing braids and cornrows.
Maybe some one should have spoken to the parents of the children who chose the black dolls and asked them what they did to cultivate being comfortable being black. We could all learn from them (especially me).

[PurpleJ3nn]

This brought tears to my eyes. I am a 34 year old white woman. I can recall as a child, preferring the black doll. This was in no test, or such, only when asked which Cabbage Patch I wanted, I wanted a black baby, unfortunately (and I was upset by this) they did not have one.
I was lucky enough to be raised to see people as PEOPLE, nice people, not nice people... not black, white, asian, etc... Yet at the same time, as I grew up, I was shocked and confused that people could hate someone for such a trivial (in my eyes) reason; it did not make sense to me.
To see these children point to the black doll as the bad one, then to see the confusion on their faces when asked which one looks like them.... I was crying. It hurts me that ANY child could see themselves in that way, no matter race, sex or even size (because I am sure that if you had a 'skinny' doll and a 'chubby/fat' doll... the skinny one would be chosen as the "good" one).
What are we doing to our children?