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Know, the dark skin color as the ugly child or the -- >> no, im not surprised. every day they are watching television, they are walking to school, hanging out with their parents and their friends, and they dont interact with black people. they dont interact with black children. and the perception of black people, hispanics, or others, its negative. its always negative. >> a lot of kids go to racially diverse schools. were going to talk about that in a minute. 77% of the white kids pointed to the...

>> show me the good child. >> this one. >> okay. why is he the good child? >> he looks good. >> show me the child who has the skin color most children dont like? >> pretty striking stuff. this is all part of a pilot study that we commissioned designed and the results analyzed by renowned child psychologist and researcher in margaret beale spencer. shes a leader in the field. shell be joining the discussion a little bit later. spencers team of psychologists tested more than 130 kids in eight diff...

Child. and why is she the good looking child? >> because she has light skin. >> show me the good child. >> this one. >> why is he the good child? >> he looks good. >> show me the child who has the skin color most children dont like. >> pretty striking stuff. this is all part of a pilot study that we commissioned designed, and the results analyzed by a renowned child researcher. shes with us in the audience tonight. shes a leader in the field. shell be joining the discussion a little bit later. s...

Were talking about a study that we commissioned, a pilot study that reveals what white and black kids think about skin color and race and what they think about themselves. white kids as a whole responded with a high rate of what researchers called white bias, which is identifying their own skin color with positive attributes and black skin with negative attributes. black kids also have a white bias, but not to the degree of other studies have shown in decades past. we wanted to know about the pa...

Negative attributes. black kids also have a white bias, but not to the degree of other studies have shown in decades past. we wanted to know about the parents, how do they factor into their kids racial bias and what do they think about their kids answers. one thing our pilot study indicated and po bronsons research revealed is white parents talk to their kids much less about race than black parents do, and there are cons quo consequences for that. we got parents together and had them watch their...

Original test when they overwhelmingly chose white over black. the pilot study was designed by child psychologist professor margaret spencer. and po bronson. donna, what do you make of that? that black kids still have sfg of a white bias? >> again, it wasnt surprising, but a little shocking. given, again, the innate cultural factors that kids grew up with. again, i go back to my years of the paperback test. anderson, i knew as a kid that i was black. often my grandmother would tell me, dont go o...

>> can you show me the child that has your skin color? >> that one. >> okay. show me the child that has the skin color you want. >> that one. >> okay. show me the child who has the skin color you dont want. show me the child you would like as a classmate. >> all of them. >> you like all of them as classmates? >> mm-hmm. >> why do you say all of them? >> because i dont really care what color they have. >> its interesting. that brings us to the second big finding from the survey that black kids al...

That has your skin color? >> that one. >> okay. show me the child that has the skin color you want. >> that one. >> okay. show me the child who has the skin color you dont want. show me the child you would like as a classmate. >> all of them. >> you like all of them as classmates? >> mm-hmm. >> why do you say all of them? >> because i dont really care what color they have. >> its interesting. that brings us to the second big finding from the survey that black kids also have a bias toward white, ...

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