Thereβs only one race, the human race. Race theory was created by Humans.
Jane Elliott first gave this lesson on April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Itβs called the βBlue Eyes – Brown Eyesβ exercise, and it teaches a lesson on discrimination. Our words come with consequences, both good and bad. Our words still have power to bring down the Black & Indigenous communities today.
The astute Jane Elliot talks about the after-effects of standard education and its connection to wholesale hatred for black people. She spoke about her famous blue-eyes-vs.-brown-eyes experiment to the show’s audience, separating the people on the basis of eye pigment and giving one group preferential treatment over the other. As a statement about the roots of racism, Elliott’s exercise was really powerful. Please subscribe!!!
The Racist map of the world with Jane Elliott on the Oprah Winfrey Show
https://www.clarkson.edu http://www.clarkson.edu/admissions/ Jane Elliott is an outspoken anti-racism activist, feminist and LGBT activist, but if you ask her, she simply says, “I prefer to be called an educator.” Jane Elliott is famous for creating the “blue-eye/brown-eye” exercise, which she developed the day after Martin Luther King’s assassination. That day back in 1968, she was going to teach her third-grade class about Native Americans and the Sioux prayer that goes “Oh Great Spirit, keep me from ever judging a man until I have walked a mile in his moccasins.” However, after she learned about King’s assassination she defied convention. She divided her class according to each child’s eye color. The children with blue eyes would be superior to the children with brown eyes. All class privileges would be taken away from the children with brown eyes and given to the children with blue eyes. She would encourage the blue-eyed children to play only with other children with blue eyes while the children with brown eyes were denied the privilege of using the playground. The following day she reversed the roles. The result of the exercise was a group of children with a new view of diversity and acceptance. Jane also experienced a life-changing moment that would lead her to a new life of teaching others about the meaning of acceptance and a new identification as the “foremother” diversity training.
In this video I will be talking about Jane Elliott’s experiment with third grader in which she used the power of education to confront racial prejudices after Martin Luther King.’s assassination. Our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/socialscienceclubofficial/ Our blog: http://www.socialscienceclub.com/
Jane Elliott has a conversation about race, religion, education and everything in between.. you might also like: https://www.lowellmilkencenter.org/newsroom/videos/view/jane-elliott-brown-eyes-blue-eyes The Mystery of Black History https://youtu.be/9XmD0ek6Kgo via @YouTube & The Mule, the Monk, the Martyr & the Master #SpokenWord #Film https://youtu.be/sotP9DucZs0 via @YouTube
