Is it normal that i thought racist things as a child?

I agree with Parrish. It's unfortunate but the beauty of adulthood is that we can shed ourselves of what we were taught to believe as children and better ourselves for the next generation

Agree with Parrish. Inherited racism I call it. I didn't even realise I was racist until in one day working in the extreme outback in Australian, an old aboriginal woman was waiting at a petrol station / come general store to be served. A bus load of tourist came in and even though the black lady was next the store owner served all the tourist first. After another 20min he called out next to me and I said the old lady was 'next'. He snarled and said "what, do you love these black cunts". I Vowed then and there never to treat someone with less dignity than I expect to be given. My brothers & I grew up as the only white kids in the outback school and in those days racism was extreme. Now if you go to Bourke or Wilcania, you will be screamed at from across the street and called a 'white cunt'. The difference now is racism or hatred is mutual however aboriginal people still face the same hopelessness, depression, alcoholism and zero opportunity. And every Australian past and present is responsible while this environment exists.

When I was a kid, I didn't even know that, aside from color, there was any difference between the black kids, white kids and asian kids. I grew up on Guam where Asian was the majority and we white/black kids were the minority.

When I moved back to the US and started going to a school in Florida, I walked to the bus stop every day and it was shaped like a crescent. The black kids sat nearest to me and the white sat further away. I would sit with the black kids as they were closer, I wanted to make friends. Eventually, they kicked me out and told me that white kids and black kids can't be friends because my family (whom, I shall note, were poor, Irish immigrants), owned their families as slaves.

This continued until I left the state. I became absolutely convinced by their behavior towards me, their words and their treatments that blacks HATED whites. If a black person approached me or wanted to talk to me, I assumed that they would bully me, yell at me, insult me and so on. These girls were my first experience with racism and I can effectively say that it has taken me years to realize that not all black people hate white people and their treatment of me should not reflect the way I should react to the entire race. From what I hear from friends and blacks who have traveled there who were equally surprised with this behavior from the part of blacks, it's a heavily regional thing.

I will go with Parrish on this one. Environmental conditioning is a very strong thing in regards to racism. No doubt those girls were told these things by their friends or parents. Kids don't learn this stuff on their own.

Product of your enviroment.

In psychology, we call it multigenerational transmission. That is, you learned these attitudes from your parents, which is normal, but now that you're a free thinking adult, you have to decide for yourself if you want to change, or pass it onto your own kids.

When I was very young, I would periodically have racist thoughts. I agree with Monsieur Parrish that it has something to do with the environment that you're raised in. I am mixed race and I find it almost baffling if not ironic that some of the family members on my mother's side were racists. My grandmother used to make it a habit to "warn" me about how "evil" my father's ethnicity was. I have even noticed that racism can exists in ethnicity groups where the hatred is targeted to themselves. A good example are some African Americans and their view towards Africans. Thinking that they are better than them because they "didn't come from Africa" which is incorrect because in some theories of evolution, life was supposed to have originated in Africa . I used to be terrified of men in general but there were times where I was irrationally afraid of men of African descent. There were times where I would make a statement and my family would accuse me of being a Racist. I always hated that because I never considered myself to be one. So yes, I do think that the environment where a person grows up in can have a great effect on them.

Children don't have a fully active conscious, so that's pretty normal. Without this, they can't regulate "inappropriate" thoughts like a teen or adult can. I used to think up worse stuff than that as a kid, we all did once but grew out of it and forgot.

"A child would destroy the world if it had the power"

- Sigmund freud

Please do not use -ists and -isms.

Which tribe do you belong to?

A certain degree of "racism" is completely natural. There's literally nothing wrong with it in the slightest.

I'm afraid the "Us and them" mentality is an inherent human trait which comes into play the moment your brain tells you that there's a difference between "my group" and "theirs" -just check out supporters during your average Premier League match, often attacking total strangers just for supporting the other team, that's where parents come into play,

I remember growing up here in South Africa my mom almost got a heart attack when we walked into a downtown shopping canter and I loudly remarked "Look at all the BLACK PEOPLE" in all the voulume my four year old voice could muster, up until that time id mostly been to other shopping places where the majority of the shoppers where white people from the suburban areas

Black jokes r funny. They r all i post on my twitter

I think it's normal. Completely normal. But I'm 28 now and I still think racist thoughts. I have compete respect for everyone, but I think racism at times is funny. Regardless of whether it is toward black people, brown people, out my race, white people.

I didn't even grasp the concept of race until I was about 11 or 12.

I'd like to say I am not racist now.