How to End Racism

When I was in high school in the late 60s, my history teacher posed this question to the class: How can we as a society end racism? The students called out lots of solutions, but the best one that I have never forgotten came from a boy named Roger Lorberbaum, who I remember only because of his brilliant, though ultimately unworkable, solution: Kill all the adults and leave only babies.

Babies who never knew about slavery or Jim Crow or lynchings or Rosa Parks or plantation owners or the white man as Master. Just innocent babies starting out life together, crawling around playing happily, untainted by harmful knowledge passed down from parents and grandparents still bitterly harboring ugly grudges stemming from a distant time of inequality.

Everyone agreed that was a great plan, until one of the other kids pointed out, "But who would feed the babies? Wouldn't they all die?" Fortunately the bell rang signalling the end of class. But I still remember that discussion, and in all the years since I've never heard a better solution than Roger's.