You talk about the importance of empathy in your reply, but then you seem to be advocating shaming young children because of their racial privilege? Maybe I'm misinterpreting? But otherwise there's a serious problem here.

As for talking about racial privilege, as I said, I'm not against that at all. Obviously. I'd have been standing right at the back of that group of kids. Every one of those questios applied to me.

But I certainly didn't feel less "privileged" than my classmates when I was at school. I had plenty of advantages most of them lacked. I was popular, consistently at the top of my class, I wasn't bullied, I was good at sports. The idea that my classmates should feel sorry for me just because I was black would have been laughable to them.

Teaching that idea, at least without making it very clear that my skin was only one aspect of many, would have only taught me to feel worse about myself and taught the other kids that white skin is better than dark skin. Which surely is exactly the opposite of the intended effect.