I don't think this is really about race at all.

[jwirr]

102. Yes, thank God. I think racism is a learned behavior because if one looks at small children they do

not act the way many do as we get older. They play together without discrimination. I have seen it in my multi-racial family. But as they get older you see children emulate their parents and begin to use racist words. Later it is often peers who teach them who and how to hate.

You can see this mechanism at work in religion. If you are indoctrinated from little on up you tend to hold on to these beliefs as you get older even if you stop going to church for further indoctrination. It becomes an engrained philosophy of life that you no longer even think of as religion.

In the 60s many of us stopped using the old words and ideas to teach our children about others and our children are no longer a part of the bigoted families we once were. We rejected the racist education of our ancestors. In my particular family that means going from KKK (great grandparents) to inter-racial marriages (my children and great grandchildren).

We were not born racist we either learned not to be or we learned how to be.