Yeah, parents can be negative, but I think children can sometimes become negative about 'brown' people just by watching the news.
My 11 year old has often commented that the criminals in the day to day news, ie knife criminals, etc, tend to be black.
Is that the start of a racist attitude or just an observation that in his eyes, black people are more likely to be criminals that white people*?
*I'm not suggesting this is the case, it's just how it comes across on the news in his eyes.
Tony Blair once said "people had to drop their political correctness and recognise that the violence would not be stopped "by pretending it is not young black kids doing it".
Whether that is true or not, kids will listen to the Prime Ministers views.
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