"The Angry Eye" | part 2 | Brown Eye-Blue Eye Experiment

Racism is a system of advantage based on race. Do you believe white racism exists? Do you believe black racism exists? How has white racism adversely affected the lives of black people in America? How has black racism adversely affected the lives of white people in America? Black people or any minority race can hate white people all they want but it has no power to impact a whole group of white people.

Centuries of slavery followed by systemic racism—such as sharecropping, black codes, Jim Crow—have acted as "virtual re-enslavement" policies that continue today. The practice of lynching was done by families, women and children, who would smile and grin at blacks being hung, or tied to a truck with their bodies dragged through the streets until the limbs came apart. Although not everyone is traumatized by a particular incident, slavery is not about one incident but a lifetime of incidents.

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

Category:

Education

Tags:

• angryeye
• janeelliot
• blueeyes
• experiment
• understanding
• racism

[timetopretend4]

She cannot change her orientation. I agree with everything else, but I can't believe Jane said that.

[melmariemartin]

@timetopretend4 I thought she said "orientation" at first too, but I believe she said "ornamentation"

[SandalsInSnow]

Jane Elliot does not give a FUCK about White People's Tears, and it's the most refreshing thing I've seen all day! She's pretty darn amazing.

[evildevilgirl02]

I'm not going to say to a black person, "I don't see you black." I do see them black, but I don't see being black as a good/bad thing. It's just who they are. Nothing wrong with it.

[TheLittleLat]

@timetopretend4 I think it is more that, the girl can choose to not disclose her issues. Suppose it was sexuality it can be private. You cannot hide your race.

Perhaps I've taken the point wrongly, but that's how I interpreted it.

[Crackxyx]

@thaherbz sounds like you don't know what racism is. "racism" isn't something that is "brought into the picture". it's always there, because the vast majority of its influence is unconscious. very few racists make a conscious decision to be hateful towards people of color; rather, racists say things and do things that are racist and incredibly privileged and fail to understand that they are doing so

[anisah777]

@timetopretend4

She definitely said ornamentation...in regard to her piercings.

[Alphaend]

Wonderful lesson. The clincher was Ms. Elliot's expression near the end - she knows that she won't be able to see her dream realized in her lifetime. But the most frightening thing of all is that it's our job to carry on what she started. Godspeed, my friends.

[oleanderbrew]

@thaherbz

That's the point! Color is not related, but people MAKE it related, they base things on it! That's racism- she's being rude and nasty, being irrelevant, because that is what racists do! (Maybe not that strongly, all the time, but still)

[OutlawRay1]

All colors are beautiful

[OutlawRay1]

I'm Mexican and only once have I been threatened to be killed by a white person I'm also gay and that is what disgusts people more regardless of skin color. I think this lady is just rude

[chinjewel1]

before I watch this: I have three FULL BLACK cousins with blue, green, and hazel eyes.

[ChrisThaCameraman]

brilliant...racism is more than bad words, its making a person feel beneath u all the time...white people and those in power need to realize this

[gothismysoul]

The only thing that bothers me is the fact that she deliberately went after the women here. She probably thought she could get a stronger reaction from them which is what she needed to make a point, but women are treated like shit everyday, regardless of color.