Black & White: Race in America

I watched the special on CNN called Black & White: Race in America last night. Anderson Cooper and a team of psychiatrists randomly selected over a hundred children and tested them with Kenneth and Maimie Clark's doll experiment. They sat down and asked the children a series of questions relating to race and they select which doll is best fit, the black doll or the white doll. During the show their was this one girl, she couldn't have been any older than 5, and they asked her what skin color does she want to be and she picks the white doll. When Anderson Cooper asks her why she says because she doesn't like her skin color because the way "brown" looks is a little nasty for some reason. I mean once she said that it red flagged me that her attitude is learnt behavior. I believe that children absorb what they see and hear. People tend to forget that a child's mind is like a sponge. So any information they receive, will be stuck in their minds. A story my hairdresser told me about her twin daughters years ago continues to shock me till this day. At the time her children were about 6 years old and they would come home and tell her they don’t have anyone to play with during recess. So when she asks why they tell her because all the white kids play together and all the spanish kids play together so since there are no other black kids in their class, they are forced to play with each other. So I guess the way children perceive race is a combination of what is taught to them at home and in school. What do you think?