"The Angry Eye" | part 1 | Brown Eye-Blue Eye Experiment

Tim Wise's
*THREE* KEY POINTS FOR EFFECTIVE RACIAL DIALOGUE:

#1: Racism and racial discrimination continues to put people
of color at a significant disadvantage.

It's THE...important starting point for any HONEST dialogue.

We have to understand the way things actual are, rather than the way we'd like them to be.

Historically and still today...the evidence is overwhelming...A huge nationwide study of 10s of 1000s of companies estimates conservatively that 1/3rd of the time, when people of color are out on a job search, they are the victims of discrimination. That effects about a million to 1.2 million people of color a year. That's not a minor consideration.

So, if we're gonna to have a talking about housing, or employment, or education, or wealth, or the criminal justice system, we have to start with the reality that the disparities are real, and that in part, they are significantly caused by racial discrimination — that's the starting point.

...The biggest problem that we have to get over is "white denial," though, and I say that as someone who has studied that for a long time. Even in the early 60s, BEFORE the Civil Rights Act was passed, Gallup Polls found that 2 out of 3 white Americans thought that black Americans had FULLY equal opportunity.

Now, obviously, that's absurd, but that's what otherwise descent, sane, intelligent people thought even then. So...the hurdle for a lot of white Americans, and even some folks of color, is THERE. But the evidence is the evidence. I encourage people that are skeptical to look at the data...the footnotes, look at the data and decide for themselves.

#2: Being color-blind, or "color mute" is not an option.

Julian Bond, civil rights legend, really says it best, "To be blind to color is to be blind to the consequences of color," (i.e., racism).

Let me give you an example:

If I'm a teacher right now in the state of Arizona, and I've got a lot of Latino kids, I can't be "colorblind" or blind to the role that their identity plays in their life, because there are right now in the eyes of some, not all...under suspicion as if they shouldn't even be there, as they don't belong. If I'm a teacher, and I'm gonna meet the needs of those kids, I've got to know where they are. I can't have this idealized version of life that says, "race doesn't matter to them," because IT DOES.

As a parent (I have two kids), if you don't TALK to children ABOUT RACISM, both PAST AND PRESENT, they grow up — they can look around and see the disparities — they can see that who has what is often about color, who lives where is often about color — if you don't provide the context for that, you know what happens, those kids grow up, according to the research, to believe that those disparities are A) natural, which is a dangerous thought, or B) that the folks on the bottom are there because...they don't try hard enough, their bad people, they aren't as smart as the rest of us.

So, really, "color blindness" or being "color mute" can actually feed racist perceptions.

#3: We all have a stake in combatting racism and racial
inequality. That is, people of colors' progress HELPS
white people.

"This is critical, especially for getting over that problem of [white] denial...a lot of times we...worry that...if people of color make progress it's gonna hurt white folks.

The fact is...racial inequity is DANGEROUS for all of us. In about 30/35/40 years...about half the [U.S.]population will be people of color, the other half will be white people. There is NO WAY that we can maintain a healthy, productive economy and society if one half of society has double the unemployment rate, three times the poverty rate of the other half, 1/10th the wealth, 8 years less life expectancy, double the infant mortality of the other half...we [MUST] worry about the racial disparity of the other half, and the racism that is, in part, responsible for them...because otherwise the whole society is not going to functional because of the racial inequity of the other half."

http://www.timwise.org/2010/08/tim-wi...

Brown Eyes-Blue Eyes Experiment - "The Angry Eye"
By Ms. Jane Elliot

• Category

  Education

[lovinBreezy12]

Saying things like "I don't see color" is an issue because it completely erases that person's ethnicity, and everything that comes with it. Someone's color is part of their identity. Being aware of a person's race doesn't make you racist. It's discriminating against that person because of their race that makes someone a bigot.

[FrenziedFlame]

'because my feelings were hurt.' Oh, you're feelings were hurt, were they? In an experiment that she knew she was a part of. People are abused, people are fucking dead. But wait, this poor white girl's feelings were hurt because she got a stern talking to. Quick, everyone sympathise.

[theindigolemon]

Open segregation and reading things like "only brown-eyed need apply", which have had no relevance to the real world for 50 years.

Only because it's illegal. Employment discrimination is very real.

[theindigolemon]

"Bringing up two murders of black people by whites, when there's about 6 times more black-on-white crime in the US than white-on-black."

Another way of saying that is that black people are just as likely to be the victim of violent crime perpetrated by white people as white people are to be the victim of violent crime perpetrated by black people. Because of self-segregation, it's hard to draw conclusions from just those numbers. Anyway, it's not a contest.

[theindigolemon]

"completely irrespective of race."

Really? You think teachers' treatment of students has nothing to do with their race?

[nrkus]

@BigSpoon19

@313holmes

The worst part is you probably don't even realise that you're racists. "you ignorant white folks", really? Go be a bigot somewhere else.

Notice how you base all your indignation on things that have happened two or more generations ago? This entire racist attitude of obsessing over crimes of generations past and casting white people as eternally guilty and black people as eternal victims is destructive to both sides, all it does is keep society from moving past this shit.

[CyborgParrot]

The only reason there is not active discrimination in the country is because we have outlawed the PRACTICE. There is no way we can outlaw the belief or perception. The perceptions and beliefs like this still exist and are being used every day across the country. Racism and ethnocentrism has existed violently and passionately since humanity has existed and will continue to exist. To say this does not happen in the US anymore or that it bears no relevance is both ignorant and idiotic.

[313holmes]

Shoutout to everyone with logic and sees the point of this video. I see people talking shit about black on white crime and all that other bullshit. All crime is wrong and that black on white crime is something that has picked up over the years. It doesn't compare to harsh trials and tribulations blacks faced back in the day. In 2012 we still walk around with targets on our back. You ignorant white folks will never know what thats like because of "White Privilege" I commend the ones that do know

[BigSpoon19]

You're not the sharpest tool in the shed, are you? If you think that the "only _____ need apply" does not still go on, you're not paying attention.The fact that individual whites have been demeaned misses the point. That attitude towards people of color was ubiquitous for decades. That type of condescension continues.The question is not "black-on-white" vs. "white-on-black," you half-wit. We're not keeping score. The point is that a pervasive culture of exclusion was the cause of those crimes.

[nrkus]

This is idiotic. Her "exercise" consists of three things:

- Open segregation and reading things like "only brown-eyed need apply", which have had no relevance to the real world for 50 years.

- Being mean to a girl and making her feel stupid in a way that I've seen some teachers treating students including me completely irrespective of race.

- Bringing up two murders of black people by whites, when there's about 6 times more black-on-white crime in the US than white-on-black.

[Khymeira]

This woman gives me LIFE! <3