Nick Berger

The children in the article are not to blame for their knowledge and practice of racism.  Most of the knowledge a child collects in the early stages of its life is from its parents.  Children learn how to communicate, walk, etc. from their parents.  The same applies to something such as racism.  If the child grows up in a household full of racism where it seems acceptable they are only going to act similarly in the outside world.  According to language as a way of knowing the children hear what their parents say and act just like them.  Every kid when they are younger says that they want to grow up and be just like their parents.  Which means that they begin to act like them and pick up certain habits that they can only learn about by being around them for a long time.  The only way for these children to understand that racism is wrong is by them learning that it is not good and believing it.  If a child is told and now knows that racism is wrong and continues to practice it, the blame will now be on the child rather than the parents.