Picture of a white child curiously touching the shield of a black riot cop during a KKK protest. No one is born a racist.

shiner_man · 1 year

Ugh, this is the most heart breaking aspect of racism. I don't really care if you're some grownup asshole who thinks blacks and jews are the devil but indoctrinating innocent children into this lifestyle breaks my heart.

Seeing kids dressed up like that or flashing white power signs when they should be playing with Elmo saddens me to no end.

_Freedom_ · 1 year

I was touched by this picture, but that feeling was gone the moment I saw your username.

smash14 · 1 year

He's actually a midget waiting for his chance to strike

SOON...

Deaderic · 1 year

I see a kid punching the shield in angry racism-driven hatred.

ProbablyHittingOnYou · 1 year

kick-ass ghost costume, too.

nevada-bill · 1 year

This picture reminded me of one of my earlist memories. In the mid 50's when i was about 4 I lived on my grandfathers farm in the south. One day my grandfather and his head picker were returning from the fields with myself trying my best to keep up. I managed to catch up to the black picker, an old man who was walking slightly behind grandpa and grabbed his hand. he looked down at me and laughed saying "you want to be carefull son that will rub off on you". What i asked. The black he says. I stopped, looked at my hand dumbfounded. Then looked up and said "no it won't" took his hand and continued to the house.

jonnie5 · 1 year

is this a benetton ad?

prismaticbeans · 1 year

I disagree. I had decided for myself as a three year old that I "didn't like brown people" and I told my dad so the first time I saw one. He explained to me that that was not right, and how that was a thing called prejudice. I learned not to treat people badly based on the colour of their skin. It's normal to have an aversion to things or people that are different or unfamiliar, and I think racism is natural to some degree. That doesn't mean I support it.

Grova · 1 year

Damn that's a strong picture.

eazy_ · 1 year

I posted this a while back and all the comments were complaints about the repost followed by downvotes. TIL its all in the title. http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/iw9fi/the_new_face_of_the_kkk/

truestatic · 1 year

Why aren't those other cops reacting? That kid's brazenly assaulting a police officer in public.

Gunmouse · 1 year

This little kid does't have a Klu about racism yet....

subdep · 1 year

I disagree. While in Japan, we took a trip to a very rural area where you rarely interacted with other non-japanese people. Our friends had their three year old girl with them and while playing on the playground, we noticed that several of the same aged japanese children were pointing to her and then holding their eyelids open and laughing.

Human nature is to shun/ridicule that which is different than yourself and your clan (no pun intended), maturity is required to overcome that.

justlurkinbro · 1 year

context?

HonestCupcake · 1 year

Jesus. I found this picture in a pamphlet I got at a Racial Harmony/LGBT equality seminar, and hung it up on my wall. it makes my mom and other people uncomfortable sometimes, but it's a great reminder of how much time has changed and how malleable people are.

prestonherrmann · 1 year

You've got to be taught To hate and fear, You've got to be taught From year to year, It's got to be drummed In your dear little ear You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade, You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late, Before you are six or seven or eight, To hate all the people your relatives hate, You've got to be carefully taught!

mdohr · 1 year

I didn't know they had black cops in the south back then

johansolo · 1 year

I'm fairly certain we ARE born racist, in so much as we are born with a genetic predisposition to prefer people who look like us. We have to educate as a society against that predisposition.

kingturtle · 1 year

i am very curious where you obtained this electronic image. i posted about 9 months ago this very image (http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/dtv6a/does_anyone_know_the_story_behind_this_photo/) . my intention was to find out more about the origin of the image. a search on the internet at the time found nothing. i am doing some research on this image for a larger project. any information you could give me about how you came across it would be much appreciated.

zosoyoung · 1 year

You got to admit, he looks cute.

zushiba · 1 year

Technically that's not so. Humans are giant pattern recognition machines. We are designed to categorize things. We see fat people they go into the fat person column, if they are black they go into the black column if they are white, white column and so on and so forth.

It is natural for a species to protect it's own and be aggressive towards something it perceives as different and in direct competition. Black and White is different enough to trigger that response so in a very real way, yes we are all born racist.

That doesn't have to manifest itself as hate however and with higher reasoning we overcome those baser instincts. Baser instincts are however elevated with a crowd mentality and so, get a lot of white hicks together and bam, racism.

kemiller · 1 year

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emarkd · 1 year

I clicked your link because I wanted it to be uplifting, like your comment. Instead it made me very sad for that child.

DrDragun · 1 year

We ARE born with a tribal instinct to protect our family unit and those around us and to attack unknown outsiders. This instinct gets projected into any kind of social group you might identify with whether it's based on race, social standing, geography, or anything else.

People will make enemies of an entire group of "unlike me" people and blame their problems on them and constantly demonize them. Even if they have never met a single person of that group. The Robbers Cave experiment was a pretty good example of this.

It's horrifying when it's done to a disadvantaged group, but even young, open-minded people probably do it against police or business suits due to particularly bastardly members of these groups making terrible headlines and provoking rage.

spoiled_cream_pie · 1 year

No one is born a racist

As much as I respect the sentiment that we shouldn't be racist, this statement is factually incorrect. In actuality we are all born racist. Racial equality is an acquired value.

Here are some factual references which refute this platitude:

I think it's important to be aware of this fact as it highlights the need to take an active stance against racism.

sutibun · 1 year

Actually, almost everybody is born racist. It is only if you are born with a genetic defect that confers an ability to not distinguish different colored people from your parents. Studies have shown that no matter how a child is raised, early on in life the child will be scared of anybody who is a different color skin than their parents.

powerage · 1 year

Bullshit. If dem dere fags say they are born to suck a man's damn dick then I can be born to hate niggers. Ayup

benthehen · 1 year

Those shoes sure are tied good!

sgtsteamy · 1 year

Haven't seen this picture before. Thanks for the post.

[deleted] · 1 year

Is that kid wearing Pumps?

Richie311 · 1 year

This was part of an advertising campaign a long ass time ago.

OJ_Mayo · 1 year

Then how do you explain the first racist?

I'm just kidding, good post vag_pounder

Leshow · 1 year

he was trick or treating, not trying to make a statement

joshjcomedy · 1 year

The innocence of the child makes this beautiful, the fact that the child is dressed up like that is terrifying.

jackblack2323 · 1 year

he looks so cuteeee with that little point hat

:D:D:D:DD

oh yeah it's a kkk hat. hmmmm...

iwearmyseatbelt · 1 year

Anyone know the photographer of this image? Surely it's not VAG_Pounder.

elcid42 · 1 year

Oh, VAG_Pounder, you so sweet

trudesc · 1 year

No one is born a different race either.

cr0wmium · 1 year

He looks so cute in his little ghost outfit, too bad he is about to get knocked the fuck out......BY INNOCENCE.

dopeless-hopefiend · 1 year

Such an insightful comment on racism from the man they call VAG_Pounder

omnipotant · 1 year

And then I went home and cried for the first time in thirty years.

stigiancore · 1 year

I'm just gonna, put this here.

[deleted] · 1 year

As that song from South Pacific goes: 'You've got to be taught before it's too late, Before you are six or seven or eight, To hate all the people your relatives hate, You've got to be carefully taught!'

[deleted] · 1 year

how did this repost get so many upvotes? good picture, but better the first couple times i saw it on this very sub-reddit.

SomeAudioGuy · 1 year

I think it's testing for weaknesses...

rb76543 · 1 year

awesome picture but it is beside the point.

racists are created by the evil or stupid ones amongst us, as well as the evil or stupid ones amongst them.

humans are as tribal as any organism, and when push comes to shove, you line up with those wearing the same uniform. the hard part is that the "smart" or "enlightened" uniform is WAY THE FUCK harder to spot than the skin color uniform.

ask reginald denny. the nicest guy you could ever meet was beat half to death by black people just playing the game. same thing could be said for all those lynchings the white folks used to have fun with.

being human is an excercise that exceeds our abilities. that's what makes it fun and that's what makes it tragic.

carry on.

wtfchrlz · 1 year

I know this is going to get downvoted, but I think racism is bad.

eastshores · 1 year

I cannot for the life of me now find the story. Like it disappeared off the face of the internet. This photo surfaced about a year ago, and then it was shown to have been a staged photo using actors. What the hell. Why is that no longer searchable online?

jacks-colon · 1 year

Not trolling, just want to point out that my dog rather embarrassingly hates black people and black dogs, and always has.

Killhouse · 1 year

I think people will always band together because of similarities against those with differences. You have to socialize away from racism, and everyone to some degree is born with it.

[deleted] · 1 year

It looks like he was either A) admiring his own reflection B) examining it for structural weakness or both. Just sayin

principlesforsale · 1 year

username ftw!

Everseer · 1 year

If it makes you guys feel any better, there was a white supremacist duo that were brought up as kids to be racist, but rejected it once they became teenagers.

KKV · 1 year

Nobody is born a rocket scientist either. You become both through education.

Although actual science shows even children recognize ugly people and refrain from people who dress, act, or look different from people they are familiar with

AsABlackMan · 1 year

As a black man this is ... yeah.

Amazing. That's the word.

CapnCrunch10 · 1 year

ಠ_ಠ

This picture has been reposted almost every 2-3 months.

[deleted] · 1 year

posted by someone called VAG POUNDER.. lol

onion20 · 1 year

posted by vag_pounder.

ptsaq · 1 year

He is searching for weak spots...soon

EvilNinjaCookie · 1 year

is the boy wearing fucking air jordans??

Cross3 · 1 year

ummm... i'm not here to argue in defense of racism

your argument has some small flaws, though. the kid seems to be fascinated by the shield/and or reflection and seems to be completely oblivious of the black dude

and if my memory serves me well from my childhood, children are very acute at picking out ANY differences in people

bluejacket · 1 year

scumbag america puts cops at a kkk rally, makes them all black

mardi_gras · 1 year

While it is true that no one is born a racist, people are born equipped to stereotype. It is a survival mechanism that is very old. It would be helpful to, for example, stereotype all snakes as poisonous.

dannylandulf · 1 year

I never knew racism could be so adorable.

[deleted] · 1 year

What? Wait - where is the reddit "fuck the popo" brigade? Shouldn't be all like "those guys are dickheads cause their cops! <rabble> <rabble> <rabble> I should be able to download everything ever made for free! <rabble> <rabble> <rabble> They're probably brainless robots <rabble> <rabble> <rabble>"

thats how it goes here right?

gurucingh · 1 year

I remember the day after 9/11, it was some newspaper in India that showed two images, side by side. One with Americans and their kids waving flags and toy-guns and one with some protest in Lahore with kids waving some nondescript flag and toy guns. I had decided that very day, that I would never teach my child my belief system or my sense of patriotism, but there is no book of love anywhere. Every religion talks about love and in their texts there is death, destruction and penalty for masturbation.

vaginaface · 1 year

A gene for racism is just as likely as a gene for homosexuality

mrhamster · 1 year

photoshopped

WastedPotential · 1 year

Evolutionarily speaking, we're probably all born with prejudices.

WastedPotential · 1 year

Evolutionarily speaking, we're probably all born with prejudices.

ultrasonic2010 · 1 year

Holy shit - that's an image that leaves an impact. Makes you feel weird inside.

CSec064 · 1 year

What I like about this picture is the gentleman holding the shield gets it... he's just looking down at the poor kid probably heart broken. :/

802dan · 1 year

The KKK took my baby away.

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