White Man Admits That Racism Is A Taught Behavior

 White Man Admits That Racism Is A Taught Behavior

Shout out to Dale Hansen! Very rarely will you hear someone of the Caucasian race speak bluntly on how racism is a taught behavior. For Dale Hansen ABC's affiliate of WFAA-TV of Dallas/Fort Worth, knows this statement all too well. Hansen used a recent "Unplugged" segment to denounce the display of two fan signs at a local high school basketball game that together read "White Power." According to the Dallas Morning News, one current Flower Mound High School student and one former student were implicated in the incident, which happened when Flower Mound hosted Plano East. District officials said the signs were up for about 30 seconds.

"I used to be one of those kids," he declared, describing how he had to unlearn the prejudice of a father who used a racial slur "like it was a proper noun," said Hansen. "Kids have to be taught to hate," Hansen said. "And it's our parents and grandparents and our teachers and coaches, too, who teach us to hate. Kids become the product of that environment; I was and they are."

But Hansen held out hope for the young sign perpetrators and others like them, saying, "That ignorance will be replaced someday by the wisdom they learn when they live in the real world, when they meet the people who don't look like them, didn't grow up the way they did. The people who make this life worth living."



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