Originally posted by tabibito
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Originally posted by tabibito
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Originally posted by tabibito
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Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968, Elliott [a primary school teacher in a rural town in Iowa] took it upon herself to teach her all white class of pupils the personal impact and brutality of racism.
She divided her class into two groups "brown eyes" and "blue eyes".
Initially the blue-eyed children were the despised group, banned from playing on the school playground equipment and denied second helpings at school lunch. If they wished to have a drink from the water fountain they had to use paper cups. They were also told not to bother to do their homework because even if they answered all the questions correctly they would probably forget to bring the work back to school because.... that was the just the way blue-eyed children were.
On the second day she reversed her experiment with the brown-eyed children now being on the receiving end of discrimination.
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