Sigh. Rush Limbaugh takes on Newsweek. The actual article in Newsweek said, basically, that white parents don't talk about race enough. Little kids notice racial differences, because little kids notice everything, and that if you say "Good job! You know your colors!" when a toddler points out that one kid had a red shirt and another kid has a blue shirt, but "Shhh! We're all the same!" when the same toddler points out that one kid has brown skin and another kid has pink skin, then the message that the kid gets isn't "everybody's equal," but "Trying to figure out why different people have different skin colors makes Mommy and Daddy act really weird," and then the kids basically end up left to figure out race on their own, which doesn't work out so well, since a pretty common little kid way of looking at the world is "People who are like me are better than people who are not like me," no matter what particular trait is being considered for "like me." The article also pointed out that parents will be direct about things like gender differences -- if a kid points out a female truck driver and says that girls can't be truck drivers, the parents will frequently respond with something like, "A girl can drive a truck, and a boy can be a nurse, and a girl or a boy can have any job." Something with concrete examples that the kid understands. But if the kid points out a black doctor and says that black people can't be doctors, the response is frequently, "We're all equal" or "We're all the same inside," without actually checking to see if the kid even knows what the word "equal" means.
So, anyway. I thought it was a very interesting article. This, though, was Rush Limbaugh's take on it: [link]
This story in Newsweek: Apparently being born white automatically makes you a racist -- which, to me, is just another example of what obsessive racists the leftists actually are. It's the left that refuses to let people be who they are. It's the left that looks at people and sees categories first rather than individuals. They see either women or gays or blacks or whites or Hispanics.
It is the left that gave us hyphenated Americans. It is the left that prefers "celebrating diversity" to the glory of the American melting pot. There used to be a distinct American culture that everybody who moved here wanted to be part of. Now that's not happening. This is why I say there are two or three different Americas. And I'll tell you this: If children were not constantly hounded about race it would never occur to them that it was an issue to be considered.