In a study of adolescent agreement and disagreement with policies to remedy racial discrimination, most adolescents believed that racism was the cause of disparities between african and european americans, but adolescents' ages influenced their ideas about solutions to the inequality. those who were most likely to support systemic solutions (e. g., affirmative action and segregation) were between the ages of: 10 and 11 12 and 13 14 and 15 16 and 17