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âI watched wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little 3rd graders,â Elliott explained in PBS documentary about her work. The next day, she reversed the roles. Now brown-eyed students were superior & had perks & blue-eyed students were inferiorâ
pbs.org/wgbh/pages/fro⌠âA Class Divided is an encore presentation of the classic documentary on third-grade teacher #JaneElliott's âblue eyes/brown eyesâ exercise, originally conducted in the days following the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. LOOK AT FACESâ 
âThis guide is designed to help you use the film to engage students in reflection and dialogue about the historical role of racism in the United States, as well as the role of prejudice and stereotyping in students' lives today.â #BlueEyesBrownEyes
White people of all genders being violent is not new in this country, so the usage of âwhite supremacistâ makes it seem like itâs something else rather than white people- white people-ing. They are behaving consistent with the power their whiteness confers.
I can become a trillionaire while my staff makes minimum wage without consequence and people will have this knowledge and still buy from my company #amazon
I can lie and say a black person whistled at me during Jim Crow as a consequence the black person is murdered and I can write a book about how I lied later in life as Iâm still alive to tell it with no consequence #carolynbryant
