Teens from different racial and ethnic backgrounds may go to the same high school, but there’s little guarantee that some students will get beyond the stereotypes about each other.
That became painfully clear a few months ago when a student at Lincoln Park High School made a video asking classmates what race they wouldn’t date. Most of the answers were racist and offensive, with many kids laughing and talking comfortably about how people of other races smell, are ugly or even carry diseases — all of it right in the school hallways with other students watching.
