The Blue Eyes & Brown Eyes Exercise
In 2017 I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Jane Elliott. I was prompted to contact Miss Elliott after remembering a segment on CBS some years ago and wondered if I could find out more. Strangely I found her phone number and she answered. I was a little awestruck by the encounter, which is rare in my life. She was a gracious and person of strong character and conviction. During the interview I asked about her experiment, which she quickly corrected, explaining it was an exercise. The Blue Eyes & Brown Eyes Exercise now famous is extremely important especially in 2020 and beyond, because some people just are not understanding the psychological impacts of separating people based on differences and race has done to the country. In many, many facets of our growth has been retarded from true progress.
In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, Jane Elliott devised the controversial and startling, “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise.” This, now famous, exercise labels participants as inferior or superior based solely upon the color of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority. Everyone who is exposed to Jane Elliott’s work, be it through a lecture, workshop, or video, is dramatically affected by it.
Jane Elliott’s MISSION:
One Race
Jane Elliott, internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, exposes prejudice and bigotry for what it is, an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors. And if you think this does not apply to you. . . you are in for a rude awakening.
Visit Jane’s website: janeelliott.com/
From WIKIPEDIA (They explain better)
Jane Elliott (née Jennison;[2][3] born May 27, 1933) is an American schoolteacher, antiracism activist, and educator. She is known for her “Blue eyes/Brown eyes” exercise. She first conducted her famous exercise for her class on April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. When her local newspaper published compositions that the children had written about the experience, the reactions (both positive and negative) formed the basis for her career as a public speaker against discrimination.
Elliott’s classroom exercise was filmed the third time she held it with her third-graders in 1970, becoming the documentary The Eye of the Storm. This in turn inspired a retrospective that reunited the 1970 class members with their teacher fifteen years later in “A Class Divided“, an episode of the PBS series Frontline. After leaving her school, Elliott became a full-time diversity educator. She still holds the exercise and gives lectures about its effects all over the U.S. as well as in several locations overseas.[4] She has conducted the exercise with college students, as seen in the 2001 documentary The Angry Eye.[5]
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