Thanks for that response, Virginia Tam.

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By I meant to type the word "ostracize" in my last post.

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Taunting children with red hair is an example of White on White taunting. A complication of the no tolerance for racial taunting is when there is Black on Black taunting. That taunting may occur because of colorism, meaning the preferences for one skin color over another. This usually "plays out" in the United States Black people with darker skin colors taunting another Black child who is the same or similar skin color by calling him or her "Blackie" or saying that he or she is an African (which they still interprete as something bad-which is not surprising given the paucity of attention to Africa in the public school curriculums and the negative images of Africa or the lack of attention given to Africa in the mass media). And Black children who have a lighter skin color may be taunted as being White which in the context of that taunt is definitely not a compliment.

And in the UK, I would imagine that there are taunts between Black children about their families' ethnic origins (for instance Caribbean vs African).

I mention this to illustrate how complicated the issue of racial taunting can be.