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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still don't see how little kids - elementary age kids - face such privilege. I live in a diverse ethnic neighborhood, but we're all around the same socio-economically.

Kids of color under 10 aren't faced with being pulled over just for driving, denied jobs, being followed around in a store or any of these situations traditionally faced by people of color.

In my neighborhood, the kids all play together, have pretty much the same level of toys, bikes, etc (there's not much of a discrepancy  in income in my neighborhood) and go to the same school.

If the teacher expects the kids in that class to point out that the white kids go to a private school, all the kids in that class have that privilege. It just seems wrong on so many levels to ask that.

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You may not see it but it’s there.

Black students are subject to much harsher discipline than white students for similar behavior: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/17/8255

Black children are viewed as older than they really are and thus more of a threat and/or more sexually available: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/study-black-girls-viewed-as-less-innocent-than-white-girls/2017/06/27/3fbedc32-5ae1-11e7-a9f6-7c3296387341_story.html  And https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/03/black-boys-older

I am white and I recently let my 10-year-old run around the neighborhood having a nerf gun fight. If your child were black, would you honestly let him do that?[/quote]

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