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Theres no expectation that rn is watching the same thing. for those of us who are in this business, recognizing the self-segregation thats going on among audiences honestly makes it sort of a fun challenge to try to get people to cross borders and step outside their comfort zone. hi, conservative viewers. i know youre out there. im genuinely glad youre here. i hope you stay. we all know for most people, people like to watch and read folks who they agree with. among a real or imagined community o...

Darkest skin child. when asked to the mean child, 66% pointed to the dark child. and 66% pointed to the darker skinned. not to demonize any child. we saw this across the board. why is this happening? >> just so you know, there are many studies from dr. spencers laboratory and all the proteges that confirm the studies. its confirming. and i have seen the data three years in studying this. to watch the videotapes right now tonight is heartbreaking to see this stuff. we thought that sending kids ju...

Color and putting attributes onto his own skin color, which is probably a natural inclination? >> it could be racism, it could be an innocent observation a child is making. because of what happened in school that particular day. but there is a trait, a process called essentialism. where children naturally want to categorize the world and they tend to make this wrong assumption that people who look like them share the same traits they like, and, therefore, they want to like people who look like t...

Its confirming. and i have seen the data for three years in studying this. watching these videotapes is heartbreaking to see this stuff. we thought that sending kids just to diverse schools might be the answer. its not the only answer. because within diverse schools, children are self-segregating. looking at 90,000 kids, 120 representative schools, showed as school diversity went up, self-segregation also went up. so the odds of having cross-racial friends was going down in diverse schools, not ...

White kid pointing to the darker-skinned dolls as the dumb child, is that racism, or is that just a child identifying with his own skin color, and putting attributes onto his own skin color, which is probably a natural inclination? >> it could be racism, it could be an innocent observation a child is making. because of what happened in school that particular day. but there is a trait, a process called essentialism. where children naturally want to categorize the world and they tend to make this ...

Factor thats contributing. >> thats the same reason, or one of the reasons that even in a diverse school, kids kind of self-segregate? >> the problem with self-segregation as kids get older is very different. its very complex. it is something, though, that we shouldnt tolerate. just sending our kids to diverse schools is not alone the answer. we must stop letting them self-segregate. >> where are the kids getting these ideas from, getting these messages from, well talk to their parents. some are...

Many studies from dr. spencers laboratory and all the proteges that confirm the studies. its confirming. and i have seen the data three years in studying this. to watch the videotapes right now tonight is heartbreaking to see this stuff. we thought that sending kids just to diverse schools might be the answer. its not the only answer. because within diverse schools, kids are self-segregating. work by james university at duke university looking at 90,000 kids, 120 representative schools showed as...