Out
of the thousands of baby images that were shown, I only saw three newborns that
weren't white. There is even one image up on the board of a woman of color
holding up a baby, but the baby is white. This reminds me of my psychology
class senior year of high school. My teacher googled "pretty women"
and "beautiful women" and almost all of them were the same. They were
white, and most were blonde. There wasn't a single woman of color in the
results. This shows how bias and racist society still is. Even though people
try to cover it up, in simple things like these images you can see how it
standouts. Why only white babies? They're innocent and adorable babies, but it
is the ones creating these images and putting them up that are the problem.
This also reminds me of a psychology experiment called the Doll Test. In that
experiment they took a sample of little children and put two types of dolls in
front of them. The dolls were exactly the same except one was white and the
other was black. The children were asked a series of questions such as
"which doll is bad or good" and "which of the two dolls is
uglier". The black doll was always associated with being bad and ugly.
Even by kids that were of the same skin complexion. Out of the whole
experiment, only one girl remained neutral and didn't show signs of racism.
This experiment was even used as evidence in the case of Brown vs. Board of Ed.
- Susan
- Susan
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