Fifty years after psychologist Kenneth Clark conducted the doll test that was used to help make the case for desegregation in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, a 17-year-old filmmaker redid the social experiment and learned that not much has changed.
In the 1954 test, Clark showed children a black doll and a white doll and asked black children which doll they preferred. The majority chose the white. The findings were not surprising for the time. In the summer of 2005, Kiri Davis, a high-school teen, sat with 21 black kids in New York and found that 16 of them liked the white doll better.
It sucks to think that the appeal for white dolls over black dolls are a reflection of 50 plus years of discrimination in America. In reality, there is nothing different between the black and white doll, just the color. I know people have a prefered a color in the rainbow, but for peoples color, that's a complex decision that only lies within ones curiosity or by a different upbringing. When will people learn.
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