melanie killen to scientifically measure children's attitudes on race. take a look at this. dr. killen and her team showed 6-year-old kids this picture and asked them questions like what's happening here? are these children friends? would their parents want them to be friends? the picture is designed to be ambiguous. what's happening is in the eye of the beholder. then they show them this picture and ask the same question. the only difference in the pictures, the race of the children was flipped. both white and african-american children were tested, and in addition to the 6-year-olds, the psychologist showed a similar set of pictures to 13-year-olds. at our request, they also asked kids open-ended questions about race to try to understand how it plays into their own lives. the responses were raw. some of the experiences they described were frankly shocking. this is the reality of what kids see, hear and think about race. listen. >> if you have the same skin, you can play together. but if you don't have the same skin, you can't play together. >> so why can't you play together if