I typed a long response to the findings here before, but Outlook didn't like it and crashed. Conspiracy? Hmmmm... Anyway, this is current test is not a surprise, but it IS painful to watch. It was especially painful to see the beautiful child who was asked to pick the doll that looked like her. The ambivalence was disturbing because it seemed she wanted to be the white/good doll, but she knew she looked like the black/bad doll. But it's up to us to learn to get past the insulting, insidious things that living on this planet has subjected us to. I used to say 'this country', but over the past few years it's obvious the entire world has been subjected to the demeaning of our beauty and intelligence, and I'm betting these doll results would be duplicated in any group of children on this planet. So...we adults, who still suffer the results of our own exposure to the racial radiation, must teach each other, and learn for ourselves, how to get past what we have been exposed to. We can't change them. We must change ourselves. It's hard, but WE are responsible for our own successes...and failures. We've been doing it (teaching ourselves, and dealing) for a long time. We now have more role models, and mentors, and success stories we could not have possibly had at the time of the first doll test. So we use our new tools to get more global results. And then we expand further. Our children may always have these reactions to tests like this. But now we KNOW, and we can get in front of the situations before our grandchildren internalize this stuff without our input. There are things that happened to me that I'm just now beginning to realize. And I'm just now seeing the effects. And I'll be 60 in June. And you know what? I'm working on them, and sometimes it makes me smile in the mirror when I know I've beat something back that's been inside of me since I was a child. And then...I use what I've learned with the young brothers and sisters who live in my neighborhood. Maybe I can save them a few years, huh? Anyway, life is fun, and should be. And we should learn about ourselves, and not spend our energy blaming folks who don't even know or care what has happened to and with us... When I lived and grew in Newark, NJ in the '60s, we had a saying for those who were foolish enough to try to take our power and love of self. It was crude, but energizing..."F**K them!" LOL! ok...This is way more than I usually say. Just my opinion... Dr. Said...any way we can get copies of this video? I'd love to give copies to our Youth Services people in the town I used to work as an Expulsion Counselor... Maurice
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