How do kids become racist? Dr. Angela Jones breaks down student slur video

The Isaiah Factor Uncensored starts now. Welcome and thank you for joining us for another edition of the Factor Uncensored. Just when we thought we may have had a handle on racism in this country, it continues to fester. This time in Albany, New York, at a high school where students were caught on camera spewing racism. Another opposing group of students decided to go and protest. So who do you think faced the hardest punishment? Let's talk about it tonight. And joining us now here on The Factor Uncensored, time for our favorite Dr. Angela Jones. Dr. Jones, it was disturbing, heartbreaking to see young kids still in 2026 spewing such racism, hate without any restraint whatsoever on social media. and we think okay we're becoming an evolved society there was a time where people said oh just the old people had to die out the young people will take us on a new path and we still have the same old old racism uh in our faces your thoughts when you saw these young students at uh Colony Central High School in the Albany New York area on camera just enjoying themselves saying such racist things the first thing i'm gonna say is that it's sad that it didn't surprise me there wasn't this shocking feeling and unfortunately i think for a lot of people there isn't this shock right um when prejudice prejudice right now has become entertainment so belonging can become the reward for these students i mean we're talking about kids right so sometimes the child or the children in those videos or children around the world isn't only expressing hate they may also be performing loyalty to like the group that they're with i mean you notice in the video they weren't by themselves it has become like socially acceptable and hey if these people are okay with it then i'm okay with it and it kind of brings our our moral standards down when everyone in the room is fine with it being the way that it is so it's not surprising that's the unfortunate part it is as hurtful that it still happens and and dr jones so what does that mean for us though are we looking at a new generation of young racists or are we looking at just people caught up, young people caught up as many young people, do they just get caught up in the moment, uh that tribe mentality where they see everyone else doing it? No one's saying nothing is wrong about it. They'll do it. Or is this a serious problem that we're facing? I think it's a little bit of both. Kids don't develop their moral universe in isolation. They're watching adults figure out what gets rewarded and what doesn't, what gets punished and what doesn't, what everyone quietly lets slide. So psychologically, this is also about permission. If the people that I identify with are saying that the words that I'm not supposed to say and they're laughing at it or defend it, my internal brakes get weaker, you know people including kids, it's just not adults, we get cues from power when leaders, celebrities influencers parents and our peers violate like such social boundaries, it seems to suffer no consequence, then the boundary itself starts to move, right? At one point it's like if you do that like you were canceled canceled but now it's like oh you get a slap on the wrist, and then it also is put on with the school only giving them like these really small punishments, but the people who walk out of school get higher punishments than the people who actually did the deed, and so really quick before you go on, Dr. Jones, let's let's explain that to the viewer of what you just said in this story the kids who were seen saying the racist comments, right? Many people precede them to get a slap on the wrist, there were a group of kids who walked out of school because of their behavior because of their lack of accountability and punishment, and they received five days I think suspension or in-school suspension, a tougher punishment and so I just wanted to make that clear to the viewer and you can continue on, Dr. Jones, yeah so the the kids that actually were on this video saying these you know horrible things one of them had to sit out one game in sports one of them had a one-day suspension like they were very minor right and so it was a slap on the wrist from the district and the school and the students at the school were highly upset like they did a walkout one day it was 75 of them then when the school continued not to do anything it was like 150 students that walked out and those students got punished at a higher level so it's almost like, well, what do you see as inappropriate behavior, us standing up for what we believe that is right, or the fact that someone did wrong and you're just like coddling them at the same time? It just sends the wrong message. And that's what I'm saying. These kids, they get their cue from the leaders, the power, the people who actually show us like this is what adulthood looks like. If they have no consequence, they're like, see, y'all are, you know, whatever. I'm going to still say what I want to say. And does that give us hope that there were young people at this school in the Albany New York area who stood up to this racism and said we're not going to take it we're going to protest until you're uh properly punished is does that give us hope as society that there's also that segment that positive segment of young people that that is honestly the silver lining of this story because it's the same age of students that said oh hell no we're not doing that like we're not going to accept that and there was you know hundreds of kids who walked out saying like this is not okay now we're looking at the the kids in this video we're just like oh is there hope for our future yes because the amount of kids that walked out of that school and said no to this was much higher so when i'm thinking about our future i'm hopeful about our future but there's always people who are going to test us and those kids the video did all right dr angela jones we appreciate your time and glad to have you here on the Factor Uncensored we'll see you next time and we'll be back with more Factor Uncensored in just a moment and just to piggyback on me one more time still to come here on the Factor Uncensored how much do you think it costs to protect a member of Congress who is being publicly threatened by someone or facing multiple threats it is tens of thousands of dollars a month it may shock you we'll talk about it next