Clearly the author has forgotten what is like to be a child. I don't know when a child stops de facto believing anything any adult is the gospel truth (I was eight, but maybe I was a late bloomer) but at a very early age a child starts to realize that all adults, whether parents, teachers or authority figures, are talking out of their asses. That's parents. And if you think education is the answer, then you've forgotten what it's like to be a child because school -public, private, religious - is just for the parents, not the children. The idea that a child cares about what he or she or learning in school byond the present is a joke. I was in every single form of school possible and I became an intelligent person DESPITE taht not because of it.

At acertain point you know that your parents are only telling you what they personally believe. Nothing more, nothing less. The idea that any parent can tell you anything beyond their own limited world views is ludicrous. The idea that a white parent could begin to explain systemic racism to their child or even tell them where to look is a joke, and that's assuming that parent is enlightened enough to want to teach them. I think the rest of your articles present a far more countervailing argument as to that.

I am perhaps more cynical then you because I believe even in a perfect world where every single white child was given a complete education in every aspect of race by their parents, it would change nothing. It assumes all white parents are enlightened on race, which we know is a false narrative, and it assumes that even if every child received this education they would care enough to learn from it, and my own expereicne with ediucation is that you take what you personally value and discard the rest. And none of this would change the sumple fact that all of this affects the brain and at the end of the day, I think we agree racism is about many things but it has nothing to do with the intellectual argument but rather our psychological beliefs which are inifinitely harder to change. Not impossible, but very, very difficult.

I think we have to face a simple fact that I have come into contact with so many times on this site. Prejudice can be veiled as an intellectual argument but is based in something deep within the human psyche. Napoleon once said men are more easily ruled by their vices then their virtues and that's always been the case. We all know that anyone can use intellectual arguments to justify racism , people have been doing that for hundreds of years as much as they have been using baser arguments of fear. But I think that for many people, they will use either to justify what they already believe. The only way to change racial attitudes is not through education or legislation but something much harder: changing human nature. And since we haven't figured out how to that in all of recorded history, I'm not optimistic this will make a difference.