S E79: Best of: Jane Elliott Schools White People on Racism (Part 1)

This Is Karen Hunter

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Two days after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a third grade teacher in an all-white school in Iowa decided to teach a powerful lesson in racism. The "Brown Eyes-Blue Eyes Exercise" showed how destructive racism is. (This is the first of two parts).

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. I've had a couple of listeners because this is what I do you know I'm on
0:14.4	Twitter at Karen Hunter and and y'all hit me on Facebook I am Karen Hunter and you
0:18.9	you make requests and a bunch of you actually separately requested that I have this guest on.
0:24.0	And I reached out to her and it was actually really easy. I reached out to her she got right back to me.
0:29.0	I called, she's like, who's calling me? She called me right back.
0:32.0	It's like, who's calling?
0:32.6	I was like, okay, all right.
0:34.3	And then I had a conversation with her.
0:35.9	We've exchanged emails.
0:37.1	And this is a woman who I remember seeing back in the 90s on Oprah. But she's been doing this work for the last 30 plus years since the
0:46.1	actually longer than that since the assassination of Martin Luther King this is what
0:50.0	inspired her but we're gonna talk more about and and it's the brown-eyed brown-eye exercise.
0:55.6	It's not an experiment.
0:56.4	It's an exercise.
0:57.2	I got challenged on that too.
0:58.8	But let me welcome to the show, teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer,
1:02.3	and a recipient of the National Mental Health Association
1:04.8	Award for Excellence in Education.
1:06.2	Let me welcome to the show, Ms. Jane Elliot.
1:09.2	Thank you very much, but I'm not a teacher, I'm an educator.
1:13.0	Edgy, okay.
1:14.0	I'm, listen, that's on your website.
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