Stop Calling Babies Racist | Opinion Monica Osborne , author of The Midrashic Impulse On 4/8/21 at 8:00 AM EDT The idea that babies are born racist sounds like a really bad joke. In reality, it's become a heated discussion across social media and even at some schools. It's part and parcel of our current "racial reckoning." Across the nation, American schools have been rushing to modify their curricula to address the so-called "inescapable racism" of white and light-skinned people, including children. Books like Woke Baby and A Is for Activist began have been exploding on Amazon. Ibram X. Kendi's book Antiracist Baby is a #1