'Kids can end racism:' Proud father's video of the heartwarming moment his black son is embraced by white classmates goes viral

By Daily Mail Reporter

Published: 10:20 EST, 8 July 2014 | Updated: 14:57 EST, 8 July 2014

The heartwarming moment a four-year-old boy was embraced by his classmates after taking a week off school has been caught on camera.

Tyler James from Duluth, Georgia, is seen in a cell phone filmed video being showered with hugs and cheers from his excited peers as he walks into the school classroom.

His father, Shawn Harris, who captured the reunion take place, was delighted with what he saw.

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Give me a hug! The heartwarming moment a four-year-old boy was embraced by his classmates after taking a week off school has been caught on camera

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Happy reunion: Tyler James is seen being showered with hugs and cheers from his excited peers as he walks into the school classroom

'I love this, #Proudfather. Kids can end racism,' he wrote, continuing: 'This video proves that racism is taught.

'These little clips may change the way we think about each other as adults.'

 

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Tyler had been off sick for a week after coming down with stomach flu.

And he was clearly missed by his friends.In the clip of his return, a teacher is heard saying, 'Everyone Tyler's back.' 

A chorus of tiny voices then start chanting, 'Tyler! Tyler!' and one girl rushes over to give him a big hug.

'Tyler! I like your haircut!' she exclaims as she rubs his head.

To date the Tyler's welcome back to school video has been watched more than 240,000 times since it was uploaded to YouTube on June 25.

Many viewers have thanked Mr Harris, who works as a full-time comedian, for putting a smile on their face.

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Racism is taught at home kids learn from there parents this girl shows that she is from respectful family.

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This is fake. The whole thing is staged.

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Left to their own devices, young children will make friends with any others around as long as they are friendly, and will stay friends with them as long as they're nice to them. The problems arise when adults teach them that someone's skin colour or nationality are good enough reasons to be rude to them or make their life harder than it is already, or that one horrible person means everyone of that nationality or skin colour is the same. Why teach such a corrosive and separatist way to live? I take people as I find them, and colour and nationality play no part in my children's friendships either.

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Ah, the innocence of childhood. I was in schools on military bases until the 3rd grade. It was pretty mixed race, and so racism was completly unknown to me.Then we were stationed in Illinois and I finished 3rd grade in an inner-city school in Chicago. 3rd graders with knives...who knew that existed? It was a horrifying thing to learn at that age, that my skin color made me a target.

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Its the Adults who teach their kids to be racist.. ! There are good and bad in all races... black or white.. simple.

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I was proud when watching the TV with my kids and my them saying the man in the red, or the lady in the blue rather than the brown man, black man etc etc. They're not born with racist thoughts they pick up these from others. Kids will treat everybody equally what ever colour or creed

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Seems a little bit condsending, as if the teacher had said be especially nice to this little boy.

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These 4 year olds put UKIPpers to shame. We're all the same under our skin, so let's cut all this bigotry.

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Very cute but what is he teaching his son by uploading this? That he should be facing a life of racism? The more people make a big deal about these things, then the bigger deal your race becomes

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Racism is taught. Nobody is born racist. Kids notice skin colours but they don't question it further than "why?", and they certainly don't hate their peers for it.

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