[CNN] The Shocking True/CNN Study On Children's Racial Beliefs, Attitudes & Preferences.

[Anthony]

This study is not shocking to many because we look into the mirror everyday & see ourselves, we experience social perception everyday. But I still commend CNN & Anderson Cooper for doing study on children's racial beliefs, attitudes & preferences. MSNBC did a similar study a while back. You know, children can be very honest towards issues their not taught yet to suppress, their perception & how we all are brainwashed from birth about our perception of what ethnic group & facial features are intelligent & what ethnic group & facial features are not, what ethnic group is attractive & what ethnic group are not. As adults, we try & dance around & cover-up are true feelings because we would like to think it's not a serious problem in the world. We try & suppress. Especially black folks, black folks hate to admit that our first perception of someone that may have large nostrils & full lips is unattractive & none intelligent are we see that person as a suspicious character. I don't think this is something that could be cured. It's the same as Africans who may relate more to a French, Scottish, Dutch, Portugal, British, Europe & Hispaniola culture because of the exploration & colonialism in Africa rather than indentify with their own roots as Africans & before their exploration & colonialism in Africa.  Too many times in the black community we blame mass-media for playing their part in the negative image & brainwashing the world about the black image in America. So I commend CNN & MSNBC & folks like Tim Wise for recognizing the problem that has no cure.
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Here's the story:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/13/doll.study/index.html
(CNN) -- A white child looks at a picture of a black child and says she's bad because she's black. A black child says a white child is ugly because he's white. A white child says
a black child is dumb because she has dark skin.
This isn't a schoolyard fight that takes a racial turn, not a vestige of the "Jim
Crow" South; these are American schoolchildren in 2010.

Nearly 60 years after American schools were desegregated by the landmark Brown v.
Board of Education ruling, and more than a year after the election of
the country's first black president, white children have an overwhelming
white bias, and black children also have a bias toward white, according
to a new study commissioned by CNN.
Full coverage: Kids on Race

Renowned child psychologist and University of Chicago professor Margaret Beale
Spencer, a leading researcher in the field of child development, led the
study. She designed the pilot study and led a team of three
psychologists: two testers to execute the study and a statistician to
help analyze the results.

In each school, Spencer tested children from two age groups: 4 to 5 and 9 to 10. Since this is a pilot study
and not a fully funded scientific study, the sample size and race
selection were limited. But according to Spencer, it was satisfactory to
yield conclusive results. A pilot study is normally the first step in
creating a larger scientific study and often speaks to overall trends
that require more research.

Spencer's test aimed to re-create the landmark Doll Test from the 1940s. Those tests, conducted by
psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark, were designed to measure how
segregation affected African-American children.
The Clarks asked black children to choose between a white doll and -- because at the
time, no brown dolls were available -- a white doll painted brown. They
asked black children a series of questions and found they overwhelmingly
preferred white over brown. The study and its conclusions were used in
the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case, which led to the
desegregation of American schools.

In the new study, Spencer's researchers asked the younger children a series of questions and had
them answer by pointing to one of five cartoon pictures that varied in
skin color from light to dark. The older children were asked the same
questions using the same cartoon pictures, and were then asked a series
of questions about a color bar chart that showed light to dark skin
tones.

The tests showed that white children, as a whole, responded with a high rate of what researchers call "white bias,"
identifying the color of their own skin with positive attributes and
darker skin with negative attributes. Spencer said even black children,
as a whole, have some bias toward whiteness, but far less than white
children.

"All kids on the one hand are exposed to the stereotypes" she said. "What's really significant here is that white
children are learning or maintaining those stereotypes much more
strongly than the African-American children. Therefore, the white
youngsters are even more stereotypic in their responses concerning
attitudes, beliefs and attitudes and preferences than the
African-American children."

Spencer says this may be happening because "parents of color in particular had the extra burden of helping
to function as an interpretative wedge for their children. Parents have
to reframe what children experience ... and the fact that white children
and families don't have to engage in that level of parenting, I think,
does suggest a level of entitlement. You can spend more time on
spelling, math and reading, because you don't have that extra task of
basically reframing messages that children get from society."

Spencer was also surprised that children's ideas about race, for the most part,
don't evolve as they get older. The study showed that children's ideas
about race change little from age 5 to age 10.

"The fact that there were no differences between younger children, who are very
spontaneous because of where they are developmentally, versus older
children, who are more thoughtful, given where they are in their
thinking, I was a little surprised that we did not find differences."

Spencer said the study points to major trends but is not the definitive word on
children and race. It does lead her to conclude that even in 2010, "we
are still living in a society where dark things are devalued and white
things are valued."

Yours truly,
Anthony Smith

[Anthony]

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! both of you are the same person.
Using proverbs to answer questions, yea, right

Using a alias
In the Bible a name is not just a label, but the representation of one’s being, his identity and personality. In Genesis 17:5 God changed Abram’s name to Abraham to give him a new identity. God also changed Jacob’s name to Israel in Genesis 32:28 to give him a new identity. Thus, when Jesus asked, “What is your name?” he is asking the man’s true identity. This man must have had a name such as “John” or “Tom.” However, his answer was, “Legion, for we are many.” This shows that his identity had been lost. The demons had taken over his being with their own evil persona.  By asking, “What is your name?” Jesus was calling him back to his God-given identity and personality. This was the key to his spiritual healing and to a wonderful new life in God. When we have our identity in God and build up our personality in God we can be healthy and truly happy. Jesus came into this world to find what was lost. Jesus said in Luke 19:10, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.” Now, Jesus was ready to heal this man from his lost personality. 2 Cor. 5:17 says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”  If we are in Jesus, we are a new creation. God restored his image in us through Jesus Christ.

Mr. Mann or FRED PHELPS, it's said, but proven, that In heaven all will ne perfect physically and mentally.God does not hold a mentally ill or retarded person to the same standards.God is perfectly just and merciful. It has been said that when we're raised up again, it will be with our bodies perfect and whole.Since our brains are part of our bodies, they'll be perfect and whole too. So craziness is really a moot point. I'm sure that anyone who was incapable of understanding in this life will be given a pass, or at least an explanation and choice, in the next.