Is your family made up of all White people? How about all Black?

Do you live in an all-White neighborhood? An all Black neighborhood?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, your children may be the future racists of America.

Psychological Science [here] recently published a study in which at an age of as early as three months, babies showed a preference for faces that looked liked…wait for it…their parents. [Nature and Nurture in Own-Race Face Processing]

[Race matters to 3-month-olds, studies find, Feb. 12, 2006]

When an array of faces were flashed in front of these little tots, the babies gazed longer at and seemed to prefer those which shared the same color as their family members or people they see everyday. Apparently, this is racism in the making.

“Early preferences for own-race faces may contribute to race-related biases later in life,” psychologists wrote in a paper on a study published in the February issue of the research journal Psychological Science. Typically, “by the age of 4 to 6 years, children already display racial stereotyping and prejudice in a variety of contexts.”

Ooh…it’s racial stereotyping and prejudice!

I can see it now:

A six month-old White baby snatches a Pat the Bunny toy from a Black baby at a Day Care Center in St. Joseph, Missouri…a local judge sentences him to one year in Baby Jail for petty theft with a hate crime enhancement.

Well, duh! Everybody knows that the secret to raising a healthy, non-racist baby is:

1. Breast feeding
2. All shots completed by the age of 2
3. Keep them in car seats until 6/60 and above all…
4. Do not reproduce with a member of your own race–it just sends the wrong message to your kids.

Allan Wall’s Memo From Mexico today points out that Mexican immigrants are not coming here because they’re desperately poor byMexican standards. They’re frequently people who have jobs and money, and want more. People, in fact, who want the American Dream enough that they’re willing to steal it.

Exactly the same point was made about some emigrants from Europe by Arthur J. Todd. In 1914.

The conclusion of the Immigration Commission as to the causes of the new immigration is that while “social conditions affect the situation in some countries, the present immigration from Europe to the United States is in the largest measure due to economic causes. It should be stated, however, that emigration from Europe is not now an absolute economic necessity, and as a rule those who emigrate to the United States are impelled by a desire for betterment rather than by the necessity of escaping intolerable conditions. This fact should largely modify the natural incentive to treat the immigration movement from the standpoint of sentiment, and permit its consideration primarily as an economic problem. In other words, the economic and social welfare of the United States should now ordinarily be the determining factor in the immigration policy” of the Government.[Labor: “True Demand” and Immigrant Supply, A Restatement of the Economic Aspects of Immigration Policy, By Arthur J. Todd, The Unpopular Review, July-September, 1914]