
My 6-year-old just had his first encounter with racism
CNN
Keith Magee, a theologian, political advisor and social justice scholar, shares the whirlwind of emotions he felt when he learned that his 6-year-old son was told by a White classmate, "I don't like boys with brown skin" and that he didn't want to sit next to him.
"Who's that for?" I asked. My son explained that it was for twins, one of whom had announced that they didn't want to sit next to him because they "don't like boys with brown skin." (The other thought it was rubbish.) At near 7 years old, he had just met racism for the first time.
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