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I watched this video this morning in Field about a teacher who did this very interesting lesson in her 3rd grade class some-odd years ago. It was like the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered. She asked her (white) students the opinions of people of different colors and such, and most of them knew the bad rep other people gave them. Some of the kids used the n word. She asked them if they could understand what it would be like to be treated the same way, and many thoguht they could see it, but obviously she didn't believe them. So, she told them they would do an experiment of sorts. She asked if they thought you could distinguish people from their eye color and the kids didn't think so, but she told them that that was what they were gonna do. Since she has blue eyes, the blue eyed kids were "smarter, better" and got all the priviledges while brown eyed kids didn't. This one kid would not believe that something like this could be true, but apparently that kid's dad kicked him teh other day and the whole blue eyed section of the class agreed that only a brown eye family would do that. The blue eyes got 5 minutes extra recess, could get seconds in lunch, and could drink from the fountain while the other kids had to wear blue collars, couldn't even touch the recess equipment, only got one helping of lunch, had to use cups for water (and save the cups afterward because throwing them away is wasteful), and could not talk to any of the blue eyed children. Throughout the class, she'd commend the blue eyes and if a brown eye did something wrong, it was only because they have brown eyes and therefore suck at life. Two kids got in a fight cuz one of them used brown eye as an insult. One really smart kid said something about that being just like using the n word. the next day, the kids switched roles and it started over. There was a flashcard quiz thing, and the now superior brown eyes finished it like 3 minutes faster than they had yesterday while the blue eyed took 2 minutes longer. Both agreed that it was the collars that distracted them. Because they felt worthless, they acted it. At the end of the day, the kids were too excited to get rid of the blue collars.. one kid ripped his in half. They hugged their friends that they couldn;t even play with earlier. The kids just seemed so much like they understood how terrible discrimination for such a stupid thing as color is.
Years later, there was a reunion, and the now adults talked about how they still believe everything they were taught and teach it to their own kids. It really worked.
Isn't that interesting?
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