In Brown v. Board of Education, the famous case that desegregated schools in the 1950s, Dr. Kenneth Clark conducted a doll test with black children. He asked them to choose between a black doll and a white doll. In most instances, the majority of the children preferred the white doll.
I decided to reconduct this test as Dr. Clark did to see how we've progressed since then. Can you show me the doll that you like best or that you'd like to play with? This one. This one.
I'm killing you. This one. That one? This one.
I want this. And can you show me the doll that is the nice doll? And why is that the nice doll? He's white.
And can you show me the doll that looks bad? Okay. And can you give...
And why does that look bad? She's black. And why do you think that's a nice doll?
Because she's white. And can you give me the doll that looks like you? Fifteen out of the twenty-one children preferred the white doll.