https://stamfordendowedschools.edublogs.org/2020/07/06/alice-paterson-discusses-blue-eyes-brown-eyes-experiment-in-anti-racism/
In class we discussed the blue eye and brown eye experiment and so I decided to find an article of it being talked about today.
Alice Paterson discusses the experiment and talks about what Jane Elliot talked about when she went on Jimmy Fallon in 2020. This experiment was an anti racism experiment that would still be relevant today. This experiment tried to explain the idea of racism in a way that smaller students would understand and so they would get an idea of how it felt to experience racism.
Jane preformed this the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to show that people are not willing to move forward and accept all people. Just before MLK was assassinated he was named one of the greatest men alive and he still gets killed. Showing that someone and I am sure a lot of other people wanted him dead. People just didn't accept for all that he had accomplished because of his skin tone.
Of course, during the time of the experiment it received a lot of backlash because people didn't respect black people. Jane lost friends, her parents lost their jobs and her kids lost friends and got physically and verbally abused for their mother doing that experiment. This was very much ahead of the time as we are know talking about and people protesting the Black Lives Matter movement.
Jane was just trying to get students aware of how it felt and teach her students something that was very important, it was just at the time of the experiment nobody wanted to talk about that subject and had no respect for people of another race. If the experiment were to happen today it probably wouldn't have as much of backlash.
Madison Vermeland
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