Growing up in New York, you could say I was a default liberal. My political opinions, to the extent I had them, weren't deeply thought out. They just were. My philosophy was live and let live. Say what you want, do what you want.

Just don't physically harm or abuse another person. I also never thought much

about my skin color or anybody else's. For me and my friends race was never more than a punchline to a joke.

After graduating from college I got my dream job as an engineer at a major toy company,

Hasbro. Everything seemed to be moving in the right direction.

And then one day, the company decided that all the engineers would have to attend a training

session on implicit bias, racial awareness, and intersectionality.

This was my introduction to the mad, mad world of corporate DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion.

When I heard about the session, I rolled my eyes. All I wanted to do was inclusion. Jumbo, I'd play along. The sooner I got through it, the sooner I could get back to the drawing board, literally.

So there I was on a Zoom call with a bunch of other employees listening to a DEI presentation entitled Racial Biases and Children hold racial biases?

Adults maybe, but Hasbro's clientele? It struck me as a little weird.

A voice in my head said I should record the session.

The presenter's husband and wife team started by claiming white babies as young as three months

began to exhibit racial preferences. By two years they're excluding other

children based on race. By three, they're intentionally using racist language.

By four, they're showing a strong and consistent pro-white anti-black bias.

And by five, they hold the same racist biases as their parents.

You think most five-year-olds are innocent. these presenters think they're auditioning for the K K K.

Hasbro, these mine readers added, was compounding the problem.

Our toys skewed white and were therefore perpetuating anti-blackness.

For both kids and adults, they said,

stereotypes in the product and marketing can reinforce

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