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[quote=Anonymous]You know, there also needs to be some understanding that young people actually aren't aware of some of our racial history and derived sensitivities. When I was in high school some girls drew a picture of a teacher's young child as a monkey. The child was black, the students, white. The girls got in big trouble, and this is pre-internet so I'm sure it would be worse now. But they truly didn't know that blacks had been disenfranchised and depicted as sub human using monkey descriptions and illustrations. They weren't trying to be negative in any way-- they simply didn't know better. That is to say, of course this kid with the black face should be punished, but seeing as how people don't routinely don blackface or refer to blacks as "monkeys" anymore, we need to accept that kids aren't always going to know the true depth of the insults of this stuff unless we directly tell them.[/quote]
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