According to an article in Newsweek, racism seems not to have an age limit. In a study conducted at the University of Austin found that children as young as 6 months can harbor "discriminatory" ideas. Apparently now, despite a child's lack of developmental growth that allows them to even understand what race is, they themselves have been unknowingly racist and bigoted. With ancedotal evidence like this:
When he was 4 months old, Luke began attending a preschool located in San Francisco's Fillmore/Western Addition neighborhood. One of the many benefits of the school was its great racial diversity. For years our son never once mentioned the color of anyone's skin. We never once mentioned skin color, either. We thought it was working perfectly.
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