In some ways this article presents the obvious, but I doubt most of us would assume that simply not mentioning race equality explicitly would lead our kids to assume we dislike or mistrust other racial groups. Even avoiding the discussions because we don’t want kids to ‘notice’ skin color seems to produce the assumption that we dislike other skin colors. And kids will notice the differences anyway. Not discussing our views leaves them to make assumptions based on our unwillingness to acknowledge or discuss differences in skin color. The Newsweek article:
Sunday, September 06, 2009
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