Discussing Racial Preferences in Children

I was teaching one of my students. He, he pointed out one of the girls,

this little

white blonde hair, blue-eyed girl, and she's like,

"That's my girlfriend." I was

like, "Oh yeah?" He's like, "Yeah." He's like,

"I would never date a Black girl."

And you know, you know us girls.

I was like-

Nine years old

... all three of us, we were like, "What?"

Yeah, nine years old. I was like...

Like, teaching in separate corners, and we're all like, "What?" We all looked-

You did, you forgot to mention, this boy is mixed himself.

Yeah. So I was like, "Well, he needs to validate this statement

that he just

made. That was pretty brash and bold.

And I was like, "Young man, why would you do that?" And he's like,

"First of all,

they loud."

I was like,

He's like, "They think they bougie."

"And they're annoying, and they ugly."

But to me, the fact that a child would even say

that shows that somewhere,

somehow, there is this mentality.

Like, I'm not saying-

Yeah

... I'm not saying even majority of, of Black men feel like that.

I'm like-

And statistically speaking, the rates of interrac- racial marriage,

like how much

they've risen is like-

Has jumped

... over 100%.

Oh, you studied that, right?

Yeah, I did look at it some.

You said over 100%?

I believe so.