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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The separation is taught. Watch some 3 year olds play together. There's some natural curiosity about hair and skin color, but they are as gleeful to play with each other as with with kids that look more like them. It makes no difference for 3 year olds. If the black kids in high school or college are self-segregating, it's because that's what adults taught them to do. It's not natural. It's taught. [/quote]
What are black parents teaching their children?[/quote]

What are Black children experiencing around white children, white parents, white teachers and other white authority figures?
It should go within saying, but there is no monolithic Black community, and Black parents don’t have a manual to “teach” their children — although most do have to explain, earlier than they’d like, the realities of systemic racism.  I agree — it IS taught.  I just don’t agree that most of the “teaching” is coming from the Black parents.

PP, why are you singling out the Black kids here — when the OP described  several different groups of kids? What do you think the White parents and the Asian parents are “teaching their children”?  [/quote]

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