Are You Making Your Children Racists?

Children are born with a clean slate, but some of them become racists when older. Why?

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I have a lot of friends like you. They tell me that they don’t see color, that they are nonracists. I am, however, the only black friend they have. Their kids are only exposed to one black person: me. I can tell you for a fact that you are not doing…

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Rebecca Stevens A.

I write about racism, but there are so many other things I would like to write about instead. Help me dismantle racism so that I can get to that.